Pitch bending is a technique where the player changes the pitch of a note by changing their embouchure, rather than the fingering of the note. It possible to change the pitch of a note by multiple tones if you have enough control over your embouchure and diaphragm. It’s a difficult technique, but I’ve been looking into how to do it well and how different it is between different instruments and pitches.
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Playing an instrument doesn’t seem like a particularly common skill as an adult. As children, a lot of us will have played an instrument at some point at school, but many of those give this up as they get older. So what percentage of people in the UK actually play an instrument and which of them are the most commonly played?
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