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Embouchure, the Glossary

Embouchure or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument.^[1]

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Arizona State University

Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Arnold Jacobs

Arnold Maurice Jacobs (June 11, 1915 – October 7, 1998) was an American tubist who spent most of his career with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Ball State University

Ball State University (Ball State, State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a musical instrument in the woodwind family, which plays in the tenor and bass ranges.

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Bocal

A bocal or crook is a curved, tapered tube, which is an integral part of certain woodwind instruments.

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A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips. Embouchure and brass instrument are brass instruments.

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Buccinator muscle

The buccinator is a thin quadrilateral muscle occupying the interval between the maxilla and the mandible at the side of the face.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Claude Gordon

Claude Eugene Gordon (April 5, 1916 - May 16, 1996), nicknamed the "King of Brass", was an American trumpet player, band director, educator, lecturer and writer.

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Clint McLaughlin

Clint “Pops” McLaughlin (born October 21, 1957) is an American trumpet player, teacher and writer.

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Cor anglais

The cor anglais (or original; plural: cors anglais) Longman has /kɔːz/ for British and /kɔːrz/ for American -->, or English horn (in North American English), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family.

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Depressor anguli oris muscle

The depressor anguli oris muscle (triangularis muscle) is a facial muscle.

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Donald S. Reinhardt

Donald S. Reinhardt (1908–1989) was an American trombonist and brass teacher.

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Double reed

A double reed is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments.

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Embouchure collapse

Embouchure collapse, "blowing one's chops" is a generic term used by wind instrument players to describe a variety of conditions which result in the inability of the embouchure to function. Embouchure and embouchure collapse are brass instruments.

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Flute

The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Hotchiku

The, sometimes romanized as or, is a Japanese aerophone, an end-blown bamboo flute, crafted from root sections of bamboo.

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Jerome Callet

Jerome Callet (April 24, 1930 – May 13, 2019) was a brass embouchure clinician, and designer of brass instruments and mouthpieces.

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Kaval

The kaval is a chromatic end-blown oblique flute traditionally played throughout the Balkans (in Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Southern Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Northern Greece, and elsewhere) and Anatolia (including Turkey, Kurdistan and Armenia).

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Marcel Moyse

Marcel Moyse (May 17, 1889, in St. Amour, France – November 1, 1984, in Brattleboro, Vermont, United States) was a French flautist.

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Mouthpiece (brass)

The mouthpiece on brass instruments is the part of the instrument placed on the player's lips.

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Mouthpiece (woodwind)

The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is that part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth.

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Musical tuning

In music, there are two common meanings for tuning.

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Oboe

The oboe is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument.

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Orbicularis oris muscle

In human anatomy, the orbicularis oris muscle is a complex of muscles in the lips that encircles the mouth.

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Overtone

An overtone is any resonant frequency above the fundamental frequency of a sound.

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Philip Farkas

Philip Farkas (March 5, 1914 – December 21, 1992) was the principal French horn player in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for many years, and he left in 1960 to join the music faculty at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for 'small') is a half-size flute and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Pitch (music)

Pitch is a perceptual property that allows sounds to be ordered on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.

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Rafael Méndez

Rafael Méndez (March 26, 1906 – September 15, 1981) was a Mexican virtuoso solo trumpeter.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a family of woodwind musical instruments in the group known as internal duct flutes: flutes with a whistle mouthpiece, also known as fipple flutes.

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Reed (mouthpiece)

A reed (or lamella) is a thin strip of material that vibrates to produce a sound on a musical instrument.

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Roy Stevens

Roy Stevens (1916–1988) was an American trumpet player, Stevens-Costello System brass embouchure teacher, and author of the Embouchure Self-Analysis: Stevens-Costello Triple C Embouchure Technique with Bill Moriarity.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.

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Saxophone technique

Saxophone technique refers to the physical means of playing the saxophone.

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Shakuhachi

A is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown flute that is made of bamboo.

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Split tone

Split tones are a multiphonic effect on brass instruments.

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Timbre

In music, timbre, also known as tone color or tone quality (from psychoacoustics), is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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Tooth

A tooth (teeth) is a hard, calcified structure found in the jaws (or mouths) of many vertebrates and used to break down food.

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Wind instrument

A wind instrument is a musical instrument that contains some type of resonator (usually a tube) in which a column of air is set into vibration by the player blowing into (or over) a mouthpiece set at or near the end of the resonator.

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Woodwind instrument

Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the greater category of wind instruments.

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Xiao (flute)

The xiao (pronounced) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute.

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Zygomaticus major muscle

The zygomaticus major muscle is a muscle of the face.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embouchure

Also known as Ambiture, Brass mouthing, Chops (embouchure), Emboucher, Embouchure hole, Imboccatura, Lipping, Woodwind mouthing.

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