| Free blowing means to me when my internal resistance matches the resistance of the horn. Making sure to have a free sound so I know nothing internally is constricted.
Guess what? my warm up every day is to get to the point of 'free blowing'. First my air needs to get moving, then get the lips pliable. Then at that point, it is fine tuning my blow over my range so I'm in balance. I can usually say that the 1st 5 minutes, my horn feels very resistive because I am overblowing. It's a hard habit to break. Then by the end of the warmup, everything feels free blowing.
When I look for opinions of free blowing on equipment, it means opinions of the blow for that horn. What does the blow feel like, without changing anything else internally?
I think the reason last week I felt my large bore Calicchio is more resistive than my Conn ML is that I was comfortable with the Conn's resistance (less efficient) that I was overblowing the Calicchio's efficiency.
I was over-shooting notes last week still.
Now the Calicchio feels very free blowing (after my warmup) and I get used to it. That will improve over time with less warm up required to feel free blowing.
later.
Rob |