| Story time! I had a kid last year who started beginner band with a broken arm. He couldn't physically pick up the horn until his arm healed, so we worked on everything just buzzing, and did a lot of basic theory in lessons (scales, solfege, etc). Six weeks later he finally gets the cast off, finally gets to play on the actual horn after all this time, and the kid sounds great! He ended up being the all-star player of his class, even played better than a lot of seventh graders, I don't think this is mere coincidence, but maybe it's good to spend a lot of time on the mouthpiece.
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