| Be careful with tension...
There is some physics here. I'll avoid that for now, but the realities of the situation is that for most trumpet players it ISN'T tension in the lips that drive the pitch up. That is physically prohibitive. If it were exclusively tenison and it took .5 lb of tension force to play a double pedal C, it could take as much as 512 pounds to play a double C!
It's lip mass that counts, or better yet the mass of the vibrating aperture. This is why, IMHO it is better to think of making the aperture smaller for higher larger for lower, smaller for softer and larger for lower.
Yes, one needs to move air to play, but I always wonder what one means by "faster air" when it comes to playing trumpet. Even at FFF, we are not moving huge quantities of air through the horn and the speed varies. It is moving fastest just at the lip aperture. It is still moving pretty fast in the throat but it slows down throughout the horn once it enters the lead pipe.
I can see thinking "faster air" could help one think of making the aperture smaller - sipping the air through.
Gotta run 4 now!
TTFN
Nick |