ABOUT LUCINDA LEWIS
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
twenty-five years of research and from the documented experiences of more than six
thousand woodwind and brass players world wide.
Lucinda Lewis, author of
Broken Embouchures, Embouchure Rehabilitation,
and the
Buzz Pipe Book,
as well as numerous articles on embouchure, has been the principal horn of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra since
1977. She has participates as a member of the faculty in the Performing
Arts Medical Association annual symposium in Aspen, Colorado and given
numerous presentations on embouchure health and performance injuries.
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