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UK
/ɛmbˈaʊʃjɔː/
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NOUN
- the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly
How To Use embouchure In A Sentence
- Personally, I only take note of clarinet players, what with their tighter embouchure and greater tongue control.
- The duduk is a simple instrument; but deceptively so, in that it requires an embouchure and diaphragm of steel plus circular breathing to elicit its haunting, cool sound. Michal Shapiro: Grandfather, Grandson, Grandmasters (Video)
- A cette embouchure des deux rivi鑢es le Turc tient habituellement quatre-vingts ou cent fustes, galiottes et gripperies, pour passer, en temps de guerre, sa cavalerie et son arm閑. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be. CORONATION DAY
- To the west were the red-coats of the Royal Marines, and from the Union Club to the embouchure of Whitehall swept the glittering, massive curve of the 1st Life Guards -- gigantic men mounted on gigantic chargers, steel-breastplated, steel-helmeted, steel-caparisoned, a great war-sword of steel ready to the hand of the powers that be. CORONATION DAY
- DO NOT bevel the blown edge of the embouchure hole - leave it clean and sharp.
- I'm proud; my embouchure is not nearly as loose as I'd thought it might be, although my muscles are fairly weak…
- She took the clarinet in both of her hands and… almost instinctively wrapped her hands correctly around it and fixed her embouchure… all without having to be told.
- On the York River, near its embouchure, is the little port of Yorktown, famous for the surrender of Lord Cornwallis to the American forces in 1781. Plan of the Seat of War in Eastern Virginia
- The bass flute has an especially prominent part, and the composer suggests that alto and bass players may exchange parts between movements to rest the arms and the embouchure.