Trumpet?

[miamuffins]

Do you think starting to play brass instruments would ruin your sax embouchre? I started to learn trumpet today and it felt a bit awkward..afterwards I went on to practise sax and my lips still felt weird from all the buzzing.

[Merlin26]

The buzzing you describle will go away ... It's caused by your lip muscles working in a different style - u must remember they are replacing your reeds in a sax. In a week or two you won't get that feeling, it's just that the muscles are breaking down and reforming ... much like body building but on a macro scale. I don't think u'll find any damage to your sax embouchure though!

Merlin26

[Biff]

I play Tuba as well as Sax and Clarinet (gee, i'm just a one man band ain't I?) and i find that for the bari sax it has actually helped me with low notes etc. so, if you play the higher saxophones, I suspect that the tight ombrasure of the trumpet might be influential to your higher notes.

Just my opinion,


Biff