{"id":495,"date":"2016-12-10T16:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/?p=495"},"modified":"2016-12-10T16:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T16:09:48","slug":"teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Teeth . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">I&#8217;m a professional trombone player in the San Francisco area &amp; I teach private lessons.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Having spent a few years in LA in the early 70&#8217;s &amp; having the good fortune to play with some good studio brass players, I saw a wide variety in facial physiologies.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">I&#8217;ve read your web page on embouchure\u00a0&amp; I&#8217;ve heartily recommended it as a fundamental guide for fellow professionals &amp; also my advanced students.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">I\u00a0 noticed through the years that many brass players who seems to have &#8220;natural&#8221; power &amp; high range have perfectly even teeth (or have had them re-sculpted by a knowledgeable orthodontist), and in some cases, they have a slight underbite.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">* And, of course, they are focused &amp; practice! *<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Question: do you view a slight underbite as a natural advantage?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Could be, but then since the lower jaw would have to be pulled back it might not be comfortable or natural, \u00a0I wouldn&#8217;t want to say for sure. I think you have to take it on an individual basis.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a professional trombone player in the San Francisco area &amp; I teach private lessons. Having spent a few years in LA in the early 70&#8217;s &amp; having the good fortune to play with some&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/?p=495\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlsaunders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}