I started my musical adventures playing clarinet in
the fifth grade. My family moved when I started
eighth grade, and my new band director asked me to
change from clarinet to tuba. I was a poor
clarinet player, at best, and he needed tubas for
the band.
Many said I would be unable to play tuba
I can't now remember where I read it, but I remember reading a story of a
horn player (possibly in the 19th century) who thought that his abilities in
the high register were as a result of his unusually thin lips. With
advancing age, his felt that his lips had thickened somewhat, and he found
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he did it himself with a razorblade, ruining his embouchure for
ever!
Heinrich Gugel if I remember correctly - the story was recounted in either
the Robin Gregory book or in the Morley Pegge book.
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