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Re: Physics vs Desire

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Subject: Re: Physics vs Desire
From: "Steve Heninghem" <steve.heninghem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 09:30:42 +0100
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Hi Nigel
>
>I seem to remember when I was a nipper a grizzled old Soprano player
>suggesting that one ought to suspend one's cornet from a rafter, make
>contact with the instrument by using the lips only, then  try producing
>decent notes with the minimal amount of lip pressure which the laws of
>physics will allow.  This was supposed to encourage that delicacy of lip
>pressure necessary to play the upper register consistently without lip
>destruction.
>
>Was he having me on??


No he wasn't.  My daughter had this method recommendedto her by a pro
trumpet player some years ago and she has used it from time to time.  It is
difficult to master, which is probably why she doesn't practice this way
very much.

Steve Heninghem
Assistant
Tewit Youth Band
Harrogate
http://www.harrogate.co.uk/tyb
ICQ 33214417


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