Dr GO - could you point me in the right direction?
I am interested in the Kanstul G-2 like you have - I am expecting a Committee soon - but Kanstul is out of business. Would you have any ideas where I might look to find one?
Thanks for your ideas, Kehaulani
Thanks for your reply. I appreciate it.
A side-question - when you use the "M" embouchure coupled with pulling your muscles towards your eyes, do your lips ascend over your teeth?
Dr GO - when you mentioned a G-2, is that "Gustat"? If so, have you compared the New G-1 and G-2 with each other? Thanks.
You use a slide on C# and D? If I understand correctly, it's not that the player can bend notes down to that, artificially, but that the Committee is made so that one doesn't need to use the third-valve slide to compensate.
Back (an aside) to using a Committee in concert band, what mouthpiece are you using?
Oh, just because the tone quality doesn't blend as readily with a section of legit-oriented horns, as well as it's slotting being loose. I have a Committee but usually use a Schilke in concert band. Just wondering.
@Dr-GO said in Jaw Position and the Upper Register:
@Kehaulani said in Jaw Position and the Upper Register:
Could someone please tell me what a vertical embouchure is?
I have posted it THREE times, this is now the FOURTH: Please refer to post 11 under: Problems with Air and Nose https://www.trumpetboards.com/topic/398/problems-with-air-and-nose/17 to find my description, diagrams and video of me playing with the vertical smile. Make sure you focus on my cheeks to see the effect of the muscles I use.
Sorry, I must just keep missing the description. I can't visualize how a vertical smile, which would make a line from top to bottom, is contrasted with a horizontal smile, which draws a line from side-to-side.
Do you mean that the muscles tense up-and-down as opposed to side-by-side? If this doesn't bring me closer just ignore it. Chalk it off to a dense old man. 
@Dr-GO said in Tuning Tendencies:
Dr. Mark, you don't have to play squirlly to get the Committee to play in tune . . . Bob Grey, a well known educator in Cincinnati and I played the first trumpet part in a concert band.
You use a Committee in concert band?
Just playing the devil's advocate, but what about using one's ear and practicing so that compensating the notes so that they play in tune comes naturally?
Could someone please tell me what a vertical embouchure is?
My visual imagery has the mouth line running in a horizontal line, left to right (or vice versa). A vertical line, therefore, would run top to bottom (and vice versa), the only way you could form it unless you're leaning on your side.
It's impossible for one's lips to run vertically, so obviously my visual imagery doesn't work here, hence my confusion. Thanks.
@Dr-Mark said in Interesting composition tool: Impro-Visor:
I can't count the times I thought I played something great and when I listened to the playback, it was horrible.
You got that right. I remember one night I was, er, feeling good and recorded, with a MM1 recording, my playing French Horn on Mozart's Concerto Nr. 3. Listened to playback the next day. Didn't play Horn again for a couple of years.
Well, on the subject of using original material to help comeback, I did the opposite.
I concentrated on mainly The Balanced Embouchure and a few supplemental exercises from more "modern" materials (compared to my original approach). While, I think, I based things on my original teaching (my teacher studied with Schilke, so that whole "wind", Chicago thing), I went beyond that in development materials.
I went from struggling with High Cs and a workable A above the staff to a workable E above High C with a playable Double High C.
On a more serious note, here is the Swedish, KOOP. It was a hit a couple of years ago at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Italy. Heard it coming out of many stores every night. Ah. Gelato, Pulchritude and KOOP. What more could a person ask for.
Surprise. This "band" is made up of only two guys and everything is sampled, except for the vocals, no small feat.
Speaking of high on the college circuit:
(alert: do NOT listen if sexual material offends you.)
Wait until you're on the fifth set in a three-horn section playing Earth, Wind and Fire tunes. 
Wouldn't a "vertical smile" put a toothy crease right in the middle of your face?
