lip flexibility exercises by Dr. Charles Colins

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lip flexibility exercises by Dr. Charles Colins

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as anyone ever used Charles Collins - Advanced Lip Flexibilities.for trombone but down an octave for tuba. In combination with william bell's daily routine? to help build ones range in multiple octaves.


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Yep, it was my main book in college, 35 years ago
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LeMark wrote: Thu Nov 09, 2023 6:30 am Yep, it was my main book in college, 35 years ago
Yep, me too. Only make that 45 years ago.My teacher considered it as basic as Bordogni , Kopprasch, and Arban.
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captkpm wrote: Thu Nov 09, 2023 6:28 am as anyone ever used Charles Collins - Advanced Lip Flexibilities.for trombone but down an octave for tuba. In combination with william bell's daily routine? to help build ones range in multiple octaves.
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I still have my copy (for trumpet) which I bought in 1953 when in high school.

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Every so often, I pull out the (trumpet is all I've got) Schlossberg book...tedious, but beneficial.
The only other thing I do (but sucks, unless I've been practicing regularly on other types of things) is to do slurs over (never found in actual music) several octaves of pitches - working towards seamlessness (not easy).

I probably should mess with some of Olka's creative things...but (unless I did a ton of diverse ones of those regularly) they probably wouldn't do me much good...and no horns would end up getting fixed.

(The "regular" stuff that I practice defines flexibility work across "normal" partial distances.)
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bloke wrote: Thu Nov 09, 2023 11:53 am Every so often, I pull out the (trumpet is all I've got) Schlossberg book...tedious, but beneficial.
Schlossberg book. There's some memories. In 1954 I went for my regular lesson with a Hollywood studio musician, Hyrum Lammers, and arrived early. On dock was a young trumpet player from Los Angeles City College who was playing the heck out of some Schlossberg exercises. His name was Irving Bush, later to become principal trumpet in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. After hearing that beautiful and astonishing playing, I decided to end my aspirations of becoming a symphony orchestra trumpet player. TOO MUCH COMPETITION! Best decision I've ever made.

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