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Discover the highest instrument in the brass section, the trumpet. Read about composing for the instrument, listen to extracts by composers including Stravinsky and Mahler, and watch Philharmonia trumpeters demonstrating various techniques; from playing with a mute, to playing 'rips'.
Learn about embouchure on the trumpet in this film.
Embouchure is basically, your lips. In this film you'll see a description and example of what happens to the lips whilst playing the trumpet. As opposed to a saxophone or clarinet, that has reeds to vibrate, the trumpet relies on the vibration of the lips to produce the sound. There are also examples of how the different frequency of vibrations change the pitch of the sound produced.
