. . . came to me while reading a vast number of embouchure posts on woodenflute.com: more control of IT than the upper lip is the key. I tried raising my lower lip instead of peaking my upper lip down for low D and a few other notes in the first octave and, voila! It happened. I recall reading someone’s disertation about making a bird beak of the upper lip curling it down over the lower one and I couldn’t really do it. Raising the lower lip – a snap!
FWIW
two lips, eh?
what will they think of next!
Lippy! … Yeeeeuuckkkk. 
(Mind you, I suppose you could refer to a flute as a “lip-stick”???)
“Lip stick…” Very good! 
Well. I hadn’t thought of it as a bird beak, but I can see the reason to such a description. GOOD NEWS: Yes, you can do it! Simple, use the air pressure provided by your own diaphram. Your airstream can be used to fill out your upper lip, and the muscles of the upper lip can then be used to shape the lip, just about anyway you could want. It’s easy. Give it a try.
Back on topic, yes, the lower lip does most of the work.
I liked a description that the lower lip acts like the spout on a pitcher, pouring the air where you want it. Seems to me the lower lip should stay relaxed and flexible.
Hugh
Very well said!
Air, after all, is a very fluid medium. The lower lip indeed does “pour” that air. Therefore, the lower lip needs to be as fluid as the air it pours.
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Regards,
H.
A great embouchure for blowing a lot of hot air. And worse.
Yes, he really does.
(This post really should be censored)
What a fine sprouting spout there and don’t be giving me any of your 'ol lip!
He’s learned how to play, but I am SOoooo tired of the same old tune.
with those ears, lips, and usual dazed eyes, looks more like a chimpanzee imitation than spouted pitcher
Years ago, there was a publication in the United States known as Mad magazine, which featured a character by the name of Alfred E. Newman, who asked, “What, me worry?”
Now, looking at the above picture…oh, never mind.
You mean this picture:
Bingo!