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I started BE but I have a lot of rehearsals and gigs. I think that is a pity in a way. I feel that BE works for me. Isn't it better to stop playing for a while and concentrate fully on BE to get the change faster?

That is not wise. Your old embouchure is the fundament of your new embouchure. Don't be afraid to slow down the process if you play a lot on your 'old chops'.This way the new muscles get a lot of opportunity to integrate with your way of playing, which is a great thing. You can always do a couple of 'only BE' days, but always go back to normal playing after a while. Normal playing is an important part of BE.

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Trio Bert Lochs feat. Lydia van Dam

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Nice live video's from a concert in Boxmeer. Filmed and edited by Juul Thielen, sound engineer: Guido Nieuwdorp, mix: Bert Lochs

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Bert Lochs plays a Van Laar B8 trumpet and a van Laar B2 flugel. A customized Curry 10.5C trumpet mouthpiece and a self designed piece on his flugelhorn. Both pieces share a sixties (Ratzenberger) Jettone rim.

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Also wonderfully frugal and restrained is trumpet player Bert Lochs' new trio, with pianist Dirk Balthaus and tuba player Daniel Herskedal. Parallels with Eric Vloeimans' music are easily drawn, partly due to Lochs' expressive, almost classical sounding compositions, but this trio undeniably has its very own characteristic style. Lochs makes his trumpet sound syrupy and warm; Balthaus' rivulets of notes sound alluringly alert; and a tuba seldom sounded so tender and versatile as in Daniel Herskedal's hands.

Koen Schouten, Volkskrant over LBH

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Friday, 24 February 2012Concert
Wednesday, 14 March 2012Sessie
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Bert Lochs plays with the Enrico Pieranunzi Quintet on Musikfest Bremen

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