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Re: Physics vs Desire

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Subject: Re: Physics vs Desire
From: "David W. Buckley" <davebuckley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 19:24:14 -0700
Organization: Buckley Associates Management Inc.
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This method is pretty much out of favour with teachers now as it is
recognized that some pressure is needed to create a seal. Basically what
you are doing is free buzzing the lips and getting close enough to make
the horn resonate. The other side of course is that all teachers try to
have their students minimize pressure by thinking of the note being
created by the air column and by some use of mouthpiece buzzing in
practice.

I do not believe it was ever more than just a trick.

Dave Buckley.

 Kenneth A. Long wrote:
> 
> Nigel Stobbs wrote:
> 
> > I've been reacquainting myself with the joys of the upper Bb register in
> > recent days.....
> >
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Years ago I had a small book from Wright and Round titles "The Easy Way to play
> a Brass Instrument."  The method of hanging the cornet from a string was
> outlined in detail in that book.  It was supposed to help develop a phenominal
> range and flexability.  The author of the article claimed to have use the
> technique to teach his son to play as a very young lad (late 1800's I think)
> and he grew into a famous cornet soloist in England.
> 
>  I tried it and didn't have much luck, but I was young and impatient.
> 
> Hope this helps your question.
> 
> Ken Long USA
> 
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