[Trombone-l] Trombone-l Embouchure Dictations Of The Bass Trombone Valve Register (not an immaculate concepti

[John Cather]

I double on all these. It's not one embouchure for me. It's one for  
each instrument. They all have they're own requirements. When I play  
tenor trombone, I'm not a trumpeter doubling on trombone (from my  
point of view). I approach it as tenor trombone and play that way.  
Other trombonists say I don't play like a doubler. They think of me as  
a full time trombonist. Same goes for trumpet, bass or alto trombone  
or tuba. I have several different tenor trombones and they all have a  
different mouthpiece that works well with that particular instrument.

The lowest instruments have very different (and multiple) embouchure  
setups than the mid voiced instruments. And the sopranos are the most  
finicky for embouchure setups. Even though one embouchure from one  
instrument can help another from another instrument, you have to  
practice them all regularly to get anywhere. They're all different.

I know a very fine player in my town that uses the same mouthpiece on  
every instrument whether alto tenor or bass. He makes it work for him.

Cheers,
John Cather

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Galen Zinn <grzinn at astound.net wrote:

>
> This all leads me to another related question for those of you who  
> claim to
> double on alto, tenor, bass trombone, euphonium, and tuba. How do you
> accomplish all this without ³burbling² attacks on notes? Apparently  
> you have
> found a single embouchure setting that works for all of the  
> circumstances on
> all of these instruments?
>
> Not an immaculate conception,
>
> Galen Zinn