#4
APPROACH PLACEMENT WITH THE INSTRUMENT IN THE EXACT PLAYING POSITION.All too many performers approach the instrument angle to the face with either 1) the bell lower than the playing position, then raising the head during the initial and inter-phrase inhalations, or 2) with the bell higher than the playing position angle and lowering the head simultaneously during the aforementioned inhalations.
When the attack or "blow" is initiated from EITHER inhalation angle/placement fault, the instrument (mouthpiece) literally "crashes" into the lips, not only causing injury over time or causing missed placements but many missed initial attacks - all mannerisms of these types destructive. A well know jazz artists literally destroyed a beautiful upstream embouchure by doing one of these. He is no longer with us, sad to say.
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