This is pretty good advice -
A normal bed room has quite a few hard surfaces (walls, desk, dresser,
nightstand) - all of these reflect sound. In a small environment such
as a bedroom, this can give you the false impression that you're playing
out, when you're really just barely putting out sound
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On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Brett Miller wrote:
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Dear John: I found through the years that young students practicing
at home often had small rooms, as yours, and in addition they tended
to practice softly so as not to disturb their families. Then, when
they played in a large hall or a band room, the habit of underplaying
played havoc w
I was living too far away for my mom to yell at me about it, but I did
manage to get evicted from three apartments in a row. Would that be loud
enough? Then we moved into a duplex and the neighbors said "oh yeah, we used
to walk by those apartments all the time on the way to the grocery s
Milton's comment, "But you could have really good breath control and you could
play out your nose", is amusing hyperbole. If there are others out there who
believe proper embouchure muscle functioning (and to some extent, embouchure
position) is an insignificant aspect of playing well, please p
Jeremy C gave us advice about how to improve the acoustics
of your practice room.
1 - do not use egg-cartons. They won't work. They don't work.
2 - don't just buy any old sound foam. Not all sound foams are made
equally. If you think it's dramatically cheaper than any of the brands
I listed a
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If so, the number of words he has written conveys his message
This sounds like a keeper. I'm passing it to my former teacher. He
did work with a lot of HS students and probably will again.
On 6/23/08, Paul Mansur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear John: I found through the years that young students practicing
> at home often had small rooms, as yours,
2008/6/23 Larry Jellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I know proper air support and control is critically important. I'm not a pro
> nor a teacher, so I don't think I'm qualified to explain exactly what proper
> air support and control is; I think the "control" part is very important, and
> it would
At 10:15 PM +0100 6/23/08, Jonathan West wrote:
How can you tell if you are providing enough air? "Huff" a note
(perhaps a second-line G) without tonguing it, and see if it comes out
fairly cleanly.
I do my long tones without the tongue. It's an
excellent check on proper embouchure and suppor
On Jun 19, 2008, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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subject: [Hornlist] mouthpiece rim size
In addition to whether you have thick or thin lips, you might
notice how the mouthpiece rim diam
Steven Mumford wrote:
This is the sort of exercise horn instructors had me do for years. It wasn't a
useless exercise, but it did nothing to correct my underlying problem -- a
faulty inefficient embouchure. I didn't begin to develop the range & endurance
I needed to play horn well until
Dear All
Mr. Kaoru Chiba, the long time First Horn of
the NHK Symphony Orchestra, passed away on
21 June in Tokyo. He was 80.
Mr. Chiba was one of the very few students of
late Dennis Brain, taking lessons from him
during the latter's final months in 1956-57.
Throughout the second half of th
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