Shulman Brass System

149xl · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:24 pm Post subject:

Anyone with experience / knowledge about this neck-suspended chest-support device designed to help improve body position, reduce tension, ease pressure, make you look funny wearing it, etc.....?

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_Don Herman · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:47 pm Post subject:

Do a search -- the topic has come up before. Bottom line, it does work and forces you to focus on relaxing while playing. Is expensive. So's a good case, and a week's worth of gas these days. As for looking funny with it, well, I look funny without too, so no worries...

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149xl · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 3:03 pm Post subject:

Thanks. I should have thought of a search. Seems there's a good deal of positive comment on this in addition to some good humor. Maybe worth a try.

L

_PhilPicc · Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2003 4:31 pm Post subject:

A fifth of gin relaxes me. My wife says it also makes me look funny. Go figure.

Relaxing as I type,

Phil
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Miles58 · Heavyweight Member Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 902

Hello all, this is my first post. Looks like a great trumpet community here!

I did a search of posts about the Shulman System, and found a lot of favorable comments, but mostly from people who had only tried the thing once, or who had just gotten one but not spent a lot of time with it yet. The exceptions being one post from someone who had it for 3 weeks, another one 9 months, I think.

My questions to those of you who do own one is, 1) did it meet all of your expectations, and 2) are you still using it regularly?

Another question is does the product work for flugelhorns whose tubing extends below the valve casing? My impression is that it's the valve casing that rests on the device.

Bri · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 10:34 am Post subject:

I have been using my Shulman System for a little over a year now and my playing has improved drastically! I find it most affectvie with technical passages...as soon as I don't have to worry about keeping the horn up my fingers work much better! Worth every penny I spent on it!
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