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Embouchure and Airstream
Super slow motion photography and clear mouthpieces.
A fascinating film by Lloyd Leno – produced over 20 years ago – has recently been posted on YouTube by David Wilken. While the subject is trombone embouchure, there are many things for horn players (if not all brass players) to observe and learn from. The complete 3-part series compares several topics, including upward and downward airstreams, embouchure and lip vibration.
For an interesting comparison, refer to Philip Farkas’ A Photographic Study of 40 Virtuoso Horn Players’ Embouchures
It is also interesting to note that this data contradicts Farkas’ previous idea in The Art of Brass Playing: A Treatise on the Formation and Use of the Brass Player’s Embouchure
This goes to show that, as John Ericson suggested in a x-ray video post, that sometimes what you think you are doing and what you are actually doing may not be the same.
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