{"id":3310,"date":"2012-03-12T05:17:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T09:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3310"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:15:48","slug":"guess-the-embouchure-type-tine-thing-helseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3310","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Embouchure Type &#8211; Tine Thing Helseth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This one is a sort of a repost. &nbsp;I had done this same &#8220;Guess the Embouchure Type&#8221; of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinethinghelseth.com\/en\/\">Tine Helseth<\/a> from this video earlier, but a server hiccup (and not remembering to put on automatic backups) caused about 2 weeks worth of posts and comments to be deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At any rate, Helseth is a very fine Norwegian trumpet player. \u00a0She&#8217;s really known for her classical trumpet soloing, but the below video shows some excellent closeups of her embouchure while playing (or at least during a video shoot, the production value of this video is such that they may not be playing exactly what we&#8217;re hearing). \u00a0Take a look and guess which <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=7337\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"7337\">embouchure type<\/a> you think she plays as.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 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\/fz0l1dn8L4U?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<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My best guess is &#8220;medium high placement&#8221; type. &nbsp;While her placement is very close to half and half, it looks like there&#8217;s just a bit too much upper lip inside for it to be an upstream &nbsp;embouchure. &nbsp;Her horn angle is a little higher than most players of the same embouchure type, but it just doesn&#8217;t look quite like a &#8220;low placement&#8221; type to me from the outside. &nbsp;In order to say definitively I&#8217;d need to watch her play on a transparent mouthpiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">I think I can spot some of her <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=41\">embouchure motion<\/a> as well. &nbsp;For example, watch closely as she plays the ascending scale passage starting around 1:14 into the video and it looks as if she is pulling down to ascend. &nbsp;Both the &#8220;medium high placement&#8221; and &#8220;low placement&#8221; embouchure types use the same embouchure motion, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think? &nbsp;Did you have a different guess?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one is a sort of a repost. &nbsp;I had done this same &#8220;Guess the Embouchure Type&#8221; of Tine Helseth from this video earlier, but a server hiccup (and not remembering to put on automatic backups) caused about 2 weeks worth of posts and comments to be deleted. At any rate, Helseth is a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guess the Embouchure Type &#8211; Tine Thing Helseth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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":[1362,1369,1380,1390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brass","category-embouchure","category-medium-high-placement-type","category-trumpet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-Ro","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310","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=3310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8155,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3310\/revisions\/8155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}