-----Original Message----- From: valerie wells <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, Mar 28, 2010 5:15 pm Subject: [Hornlist] Lipping up; lipping down & tone
I remember reading and/or hearing from somewhere, someone that Philip Farkas said that "lipping down" produces a better tone on an instrument than "lipping up," so if you tune your instrument a little on the higher side, you'll sound better overall than if you do it the other way. Now I'm no longer lipping the first line E upwards, but actually a little downwards and it sounds way better. I think I know what Farkas meant. And, BTW, the flat second line G isn't so troublesome anymore because I'm not trying to lip it up so much. _________________________________________________________________________ If you consider what Farkas actually said in his book (and what he taught), he is referring to unconscious embouchure adjustments, not consciously lipping notes into place. "while this compromise theoretically results in no notes being in tune, the amounts involved are so infinitesimal that the embouchure, AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING as the mental ear dictates, has no difficulty "lipping ' the notes into place". Farkas " The Art of Horn Playing", page 18 Paul Navarro _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
