To the Trumpet players out there...

[GMKlenklen]

well, this guy is all about altisimo trumpet playing (like c''') withought sacrifising tone quality. Wich means that for the average note (somewhere below high c) there must be a low enough frequency of your upper lip to produce the sound, warrenting a larger vibrateing mass. My trumpet teacher always had me moveing my lips "up and down, allong a track" when climbing in range. This seems to coincide with what Mr. Lynch is saying in his trumpet theory.

Personally, my problems stem from being relatively self-taught and never haveing broken the "habbit" of trying to litterally squeze higher notes out. That and I don't practace much because of school and other commitments (i'm not a real musician!). I plan on increaceing my strength (wich i find to be quite lacking) on a normal mouthpeice before I start trying other stuff because I figure why try the crazy stuff if I can't play on the stuff that everyone else seems to get to work!

Now for the lip placement, according to the physics that Lynch states, his 2/3 on bottom 1/3 on top would work just fine. But if your going to try some other method for vibrateing your lips that fast, then go right ahead! I'm no expert, but as long as you sound good it's alright with me!