My embouchure is pretty good about staying with me, but what happens when I’m nervous is my throat catches. So I get a little gap in my tune. I’ve never heard anybody else complaining about this kind of thing, so am I alone? Am I really weird?
‘Mute Flute Syndrome’’ = BRILLIANT! I like the MFS acronym, too. MFS = MFScary!
I don’t have throat-catch gaps; I have brain gaps. It’s like the tune just falls out of my head and my fingers suddenly do weird possessed things rhythm and notewise. But seis, fear not. We’re all really weird. 
Ebouchure stays stable with practice.
Time is on your side…
Dear Cathy
What does “quiet noodling” mean? F.D.
Oops! Sorry, Dolce … basically, ‘quiet noodling’ = ‘fooling around with a tune (or a piece of it or whatever) very softly so as not to bother other players’
It’s probably a Midwest USA term.
Thanks for the belly laugh today, Cat! You’re one of a kind, and I mean thay-at in the good sense of the wo-red!
It’s been a long time since I lost my Embouchure, but it can happen to the bayest of us!
