wow. Knowing what I already know, this puts more pieces of the puzzle together for me. I dont know about you all. I can breathe that way but never knew it supercedes the lip strength. very valuable indeed. Its like breathing with your mouth but then close your mouth. The throat stays open and the nose does the air but not letting the nose be the restrictor.
It isn't about lip strength per se it's more a matter of finding the right way of using all the pieces. And of course having cooperative physical tools helps. If some teacher had insisted that Maynard play with a textbook, centered embouchure we never would have heard of him. He played with an unconventional embouchure. When he got to the conservatory in Montreal, the brass instructors were told to leave his embouchure alone.
@@stefanivvan959 Something I read or maybe even an interview with Maynard. I imagine you could find the source asking on some Maynard enthusiast forum.
I've always loved his playing, and thought he seemed like a really cool, down to earth dude. I just recently found out he spent a good bit of time with and even lived with Timothy Leary when Leary was in his LSD experimenting days.
