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oldlips48 · 05-02-2008, 08:18 AM

Whoa, talk about a huge number of conditions and variables from player to player!.

One thing I would add to the water-bucket analogy, Rowuk. Gases are compressible, liquids (from a practical viewpoint) are not. So if you were to duplicate the bucket experiment with air, you would find the airstream entering the bucket to just about match the pressure leaving the bucket, but there would be some compression of the air inside the bucket. You mentioned the elasticity of the cheeks, I think this would have quite an effect considering we're essentially pressurizing two gases (80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen) inside our mouths when we play.

I agree also with the one chamber/two chamber analogy as to the placement of the tongue. Players (like me) that brace the inside of their lower lip with their tongue would also be reducing. the "chamber" size in their mouth.

And all this is not even to mention mouth size, mouth shape, teeth size and placement, lip size and configuration.

05-02-2008, 08:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
oldlips48 Pianissimo User Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 126	Re: the myth of "fast air" Whoa, talk about a huge number of conditions and variables from player to player!. One thing I would add to the water-bucket analogy, Rowuk. Gases are compressible, liquids (from a practical viewpoint) are not. So if you were to duplicate the bucket experiment with air, you would find the airstream entering the bucket to just about match the pressure leaving the bucket, but there would be some compression of the air inside the bucket. You mentioned the elasticity of the cheeks, I think this would have quite an effect considering we're essentially pressurizing two gases (80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen) inside our mouths when we play. I agree also with the one chamber/two chamber analogy as to the placement of the tongue. Players (like me) that brace the inside of their lower lip with their tongue would also be reducing. the "chamber" size in their mouth. And all this is not even to mention mouth size, mouth shape, teeth size and placement, lip size and configuration. __________________ I gotta get me one of those cool slogans.....