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Originally Posted by RGood  Your experiences make the reality TV shows pale! Texas is the land of extremes as I've learned - especially the weather. Hail the size of baseballs!
And nothing like when its in the 90 at 10pm - you know you'll be triple digits the next day!!!
Glad to hear you survived. As a TCP - how long did it take to get your embouchure back?
Regards -
Bob |
I don't practice enough to really have a good embouchure.
5 to 10 minutes of playing will leave my lips completely worn out.
But I have rather severe health problems, so that plus laziness in practicing prevent me from developing a great embouchure.
However, when my wife presented me with an old trumpet 5 years ago, within a couple of minutes I was playing a High C, which was approximately my limit back when I was a teenager.
Last year I was able to "baby squeal" a Double C a couple of times using a Wick 4E that I have since stopped using, but my usual limit is F or G above High C (playing scales and short songs) with a Bach 7E or a Weril W46 (similar to a Bach 7E but shallower and with tighter backbore).
So my embouchure was like getting on a bicycle for the first time in 30 years.
I was able to do it reasonably well up to High C, presumably due to "muscle memory".
But I had no stamina, so I was able to do it for less than a minute before my embouchure collapsed and I had to call it a day.
30 years ago I was just getting my years of embouchure problems solved when I had to give up trumpet because life demanded that I try to find rent and food and clothing.
So now I have the benefit of what I figured out 30 years ago, and now I have just enough money to get the right mouthpiece and instrument for decent range and sound.
This summer I might take my immediate family to a community bandstand a few miles from here and give them a 10 minute concert of short hymns and ballads, my first "concert" since I was in elementary school 40 years ago.
- Morris