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Is the Lip Clamp Squeak (LCS) the same as free buzzing?

Absolutely not. The sound is different, and the way you use your lips and set your embouchure is different. It sounds as a balloonpeeeeep or a mosquito.Free lip buzzing tends to pull the lips out of the centre. LCS is the other way around. This is an extremely centered way of producing a tone. I think free lip buzzing is counter productive if you want to benefit from BE.

Trio Bert Lochs feat. Lydia van Dam

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

Van Laar

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.

Reviews

'There are not many interesting trumpet players in jazz anyway, but Lochs, who provides an alternative to mainstream jazz on the Dutch scene, has now reached a point in his playing that one can easily establish that Lochs' sound can hardly be bettered.'

Ken Vos, Leidsch Dagblad