the deserting embouchure......

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:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

(STARING DREAMILY INTO MIRROR) Gosh, if only .....

.... Ah had a monster truck 'n' tractor lahk thay-at. ;-)

Someday I will figure out how to post pictures and y'all'll see that in every case, alas, we fall far short of the ideal.

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Cat: chunky, 5'5, old (tho' the hat looks about right!)
Truck: '96 Toyota Tacoma (the Skeltons' old one!)
Tractor: Kubota L3750 (altho' the 6-foot bucket's quite exciting! :D)

I do have to say that one of the guys in our band has written not one, but two jigs about the oh-so-scintillating life of yrs trly -- "Cathy's Shoes" and "The New Bush Hog" :lol:

So there ya go. That's my 15 minutes; preshadit; talk atchy'all later!

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Lost: Embouchure. Last seen this morning when waiting for bus. Disappeared during morning break today. Please call if found...

See, it can happen to any of us!

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[quote="Jayhawk"]Lost: Embouchure. Last seen this morning when waiting for bus. Disappeared during morning break today. Please call if found...

Eric[/quote]

:lol:

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Easily_Deluded_Fool wrote: I was at a concert 2 years ago,
where a person who is an Irish Flute Champion, in one of the very tops
ITM groups touring the world couldn't get a peep out of his
Grinter flute when it was his turn to start off.

Twice he tried to start, and couldn't 'get it'.
When the other band group members started to take the rise,
everybody laughed, and then everything worked as it should.
Hmmm. I was at a concert this winter where a person who is an Irish Flute Champion, in one of the very tops ITM groups touring the world, seemed to test the waters with his Grinter prior to playing for real. He'd turn to the side and blow some, then turn into the microphone. He also appeared to play along with a silent mike, then to cue the sound system dude to turn his microphone on when it came time to play his bits.

It was worth the price of the ticket and all the aggravation of getting there just to see this . . . if this IFC in a VTITMG has this problem, then it's a normal part of playing the flute, so I shouldn't feel badly about occasionally having mute flute syndrome.
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[quote="Lambchop"]

It was worth the price of the ticket and all the aggravation of getting there just to see this . . . if this IFC in a VTITMG has this problem, then it's a normal part of playing the flute, so I shouldn't feel badly about occasionally having mute flute syndrome.[/quote]

yeah, knowing that really helps a little bit......will make it easier to relax.........after all I am NOT on stage LOL
must really have been something though, that concert.
but I remember having seen the same at the concert last november here in the netherlands.....

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My embouchure is pretty good about staying with me, but what happens when I'm nervous is my throat catches. So I get a little gap in my tune. I've never heard anybody else complaining about this kind of thing, so am I alone? Am I really weird?
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Lambchop wrote: <snip> so I shouldn't feel badly about occasionally having mute flute syndrome.
'Mute Flute Syndrome'' = BRILLIANT! I like the MFS acronym, too. MFS = MFScary!

I don't have throat-catch gaps; I have brain gaps. It's like the tune just falls out of my head and my fingers suddenly do weird possessed things rhythm and notewise. But seis, fear not. We're all really weird. ;-)

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Ebouchure stays stable with practice.
Time is on your side....
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Dear Cathy

What does "quiet noodling" mean? F.D.
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Oops! Sorry, Dolce ... basically, 'quiet noodling' = 'fooling around with a tune (or a piece of it or whatever) very softly so as not to bother other players'

It's probably a Midwest USA term.
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Cathy Wilde wrote::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

(STARING DREAMILY INTO MIRROR) Gosh, if only .....

.... Ah had a monster truck 'n' tractor lahk thay-at. ;-)
Thanks for the belly laugh today, Cat! You're one of a kind, and I mean thay-at in the good sense of the wo-red!

It's been a long time since I lost my Embouchure, but it can happen to the bayest of us!

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