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Old 01-23-2007, 06:47 PM   #1
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An old adage says that "a picture is worth a thousand words." Let's write a book on the saxophone embouchure by collecting a gallery of famous or not-so-famous saxophone embouchures. Please identify the saxophonist in your image.

Here's Arno Bornkamp:

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(So much for the need to swallow the mouthpiece to get a big tone)
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