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improver
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 Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2019 11:25 am Post subject: Courtois 154r owners how to use air to not be stuffy? |
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| Anyone who plays the 154r or like flugel do you feel its stuffy? Best way to blow it efficiently? |
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J-Walk
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| Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:26 pm Post subject: Re: Courtois 154r owners how to use air to not be stuffy? |
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| improver wrote: | | Anyone who plays the 154r or like flugel do you feel its stuffy? Best way to blow it efficiently? |
I find it best to approach any flugel as its own instrument. Don’t blow it like a trumpet. I play a 154r and it only feels stuffy if I seriously overblow it. I also find that deeper flugelhorn mouthpieces help open up the feel and blow of a flugelhorn.
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improver
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| Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you feel like you have to that it doesn't take much air to be efficient and it seems on mine it really gets tight around A above staff C? |
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