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| Within the brass community, discussions about embouchure function tend to be, more often than not, steeped in stylistic dogma. It is, therefore, not surprising that ignorance has been the prevailing understanding about brass performance overuse injuries. Sadly, in some circles, these injuries are even dismissed as a weakness in the afflicted player rather than the bona fide byproduct of too much playing. Embouchures.com was first posted in 2000 to provide comprehensive information about the debilitating performance injuries of brass players. Since then, tens of thousands of players, teachers, and medical professionals have browsed the site. The information compiled on Embouchures.com has been developed from fifteen years of research and from the experiences of more than forty-five hundred woodwind and brass players world wide.
Lucinda Lewis, author of Broken Embouchures and Embouchure Rehabilitation, has been the principal horn of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since 1977. In June, 2005, she was invited to participate as a member of the faculty in the Performing Arts Medical Association annual symposium in Aspen, Colorado, where she gave a presentation on Embouchure Overuse Syndrome. She is a contributing editor for brass player health issues for Eastman Rochester online musicians' forum, polyphonic.org.
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