I’m 75 and also have dystonia. I used to have a solid low register. Last year I played 2nd trumpet in Shostakovich Symphony #5. In the 1st movement there’s a section where you have to play a passage that has repeated low As culminating in a long diminuendo. I can’t do it anymore.
I used to enjoy playing pieces such as 2nd trumpet in the Beethoven Violin Concerto or the Prelude to Carmen. A colleague suggested a medication that was a benzodiazepine but it is addictive and has a horrible withdrawal. I also haven’t had alcohol for 38 years and am not going back to that.
Every day in my practice I do long tones which sometimes helps.
I’m open to any suggestions that do not include chemicals.
LCM