I was very serious pointing to the valve mechanism in the mouth, releasing air in time & in decided volume, to produce the desired sound. This info is by self examine & by watching the wonderful B/W X-rayed trumpet players head, tongue in action & watching this so called "valve action" (tongue & palatum). Bengt Belfrage, once solo horn with the Berlin Philharmonic before Gert Seifert, brought this video to attention, produced in GB - very long time ago.
############################################## Am 01.07.2011 um 20:43 schrieb valerie wells: > Wendell wrote: >Geez, these discussions really do get off track at times. > ... Why do all discussions these days seem to head to zero sum games? Why > all or nothing all the time?< > > HAH! You are soooo right, Wendell. It's easy for someone's sentence or > phrase to be twisted so completely when out of context, that the original > meaning is completely lost. It's happened to all of us. That's why I try > to give others the benefit of doubt! If we were to extend some of the > out-of-context sentences we read in here to their logical conclusions we > could believe that some people: > > -play the horn w/o even breathing because of their superior chops > -play the horn by simply blowing on it w/o using the embouchure > -advocate starting and stopping all notes with the tongue > -never use the tongue at all > -advocate playing the horn with an alternate orifice... wait a minute, I > think Hans was serious about this one. ;o) > > I believe 99% of what we really mean to say is in agreement, but we get into > trouble attempting to describe in awkward words something that can not be > seen and can only be felt through subjective experience. I guess the > ultimate challenge of brass discussion is to describe the unseen in a manner > that can not be misunderstood. > > I remember being stunned the first time I saw a cross section X-ray of a > human tongue. I had always imagined my tongue as being a flat flap of flesh > no thicker than 1/2". To see that inside the mouth, the tongue is actually > thicker and deeper than it is long was shocking. I also imagined the "tip" > of the tongue as being small & pointed like it is outside the mouth. But > inside the mouth, it's actually blunt and round. Sheesh! How can anyone > accurately describe the tongue's action during horn playing in a way that > can be understood and useful? > -- > Valerie Wells > The Balanced Embouchure Method > http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ > http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
