| I don't want to seem to turn your post down, because what you are saying is 100%. no pressure gives endurance, ease...
But as a Caruso addept, I gotta had something that you may not agree with.
Playing with no Pressure comes from using as much pressure as you want.
What I'm saying is that to developt a good embouchure, you shouldnt worry about pressure... By the time your embouchure is fuly set, the pressure wil go down. This as really worked for me. I've never worryied about pressure when doing my caruso routine for the past 6 month and I'm using just a little pressure now.... that is almost negligable compared to what I was doing like 2 or 3 years ago. But it is true that I have now more ease of playing, more endurance (still lot of room for improvement), better range.... and that I use less pressure than I did. I'm just saying that concentrating on using less pressure all the time isn't necessarly the best or the fastest way to get rid of this "problem"... I'm not saying that Caruso's method is the best... but one of the best.
As pressure being a problem for sound... Listen to Satchmo a little... NO big deal with sound and he has used lot of pressure/twisting. I saw one of his mouthpiece on a site ( can't remember where) but there was lots of stuff about Louis, and you could see that he sawed his rim in order to have more grip for some king of twisting... Must have hurted... but no one can attack Louis's playing!
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