{"id":1198,"date":"2010-09-12T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2010-09-12T10:16:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T14:16:21","slug":"guess-the-embouchure-type-dick-nash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Embouchure Type \u2013 Dick Nash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another installment of &#8220;Guess the <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=7337\">Embouchure Type<\/a>&#8221; today. \u00a0This time I&#8217;m going to take a close look at the embouchure of the great trombonist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Nash\">Dick Nash<\/a>. \u00a0Nash is sort of a trombonist&#8217;s trombonist. \u00a0Many fans may not know his name, but they may have heard his playing on countless soundtrack recordings and albums by artists like Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, and many more. \u00a0Take a look at the video below. \u00a0Around 2:35 into the video we get a good closeup look at his chops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jE2g055zRA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Nash has a very low mouthpiece placement. \u00a0It&#8217;s low enough that you don&#8217;t really need to look at him play into a transparent mouthpiece to see that he has an upstream embouchure. \u00a0While he doesn&#8217;t change registers abruptly enough to get a close look at his <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=41\">embouchure motion<\/a>, it&#8217;s pretty obvious that his embouchure is an example of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=237\">Low Placement<\/a> type.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">If I recall correctly, Nash was one of the players photographed in the hard to find book by Bill Spilka called <em>Chops<\/em>. &nbsp;Does anyone know of other videos or photos that show a close look at Nash&#8217;s embouchure? &nbsp;Any other players that you&#8217;re curious about with good videos or photographs of their embouchure? &nbsp;If so, leave your suggestion and links below and I&#8217;ll use them for my next installment of &#8220;Guess the Embouchure Type.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another installment of &#8220;Guess the Embouchure Type&#8221; today. \u00a0This time I&#8217;m going to take a close look at the embouchure of the great trombonist Dick Nash. \u00a0Nash is sort of a trombonist&#8217;s trombonist. \u00a0Many fans may not know his name, but they may have heard his playing on countless soundtrack recordings and albums by artists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1198\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guess the Embouchure Type \u2013 Dick Nash<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1362,1369,1379,1389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brass","category-embouchure","category-low-placement-type","category-trombone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-jk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}