few days ago I started out first time on a borrowed calmont flute.
now I do have a tingling feeling at the lowest part of my under lip.
I don’t think I am pushing the flute too hard because it feels fine but afterwards I seem to have a tingling place just there …
what do you think and what should I try.
berti
Possibly an allergy, either to the flute material, or to a substance transferred to it (finish, previous player’s lip balm)? For instance, in Red Cross CPR classes, they clean the dummy’s lips with alcohol between students, but some people react to that contact with burning and redness.
It’s also not clear whether the feeling you are getting could indeed be due to fatigue or weakness in the lips after playing. This is something that happens with new Boehm flute students, so you’d have to determine if this may apply to you in these circumstances.
Kevin Krell
well I don’t know if it is lip fatigue.
of course I just started out and that may sound logical, were it not, that the feeling continues even when I do NOT play.
and just one spot, the one which is most in touch with the flute.
will ask the owner if he used something on the flute to be sure.
berti
Berti. What kind of material is the flute made of and what oil do you use (or if you have not oiled it, do you know what kind of oil the previous owner used?) Does Calmont oil or wax the outside of the flute??
the flute is to my idea made of pvc/ polymer and I have noticed my underlip is reddish at the outer rim, also my chin is starting to tingle too and has even two spots.
either I am allergic to the material OR I am doing something entirely wrong?
when I put the flute to my lips I pout my underlip a little bit outward when pushing the flute to my underlip then the outer line of my underlip gets pushed down but that does not explain the tingling and also staring on the chin.
ideas?
berti
oh and I forgot to add, I have now put tape over the lip plate and partial under there everywhere it touches my skin to see whether it will help.
but would take a few days I guess?
berti
I haven’t heard of anyone yet being allergic to PVC/Polymer. And I haven’t heard of any maker putting on some strange allergenic oil or wax on a PVC flute eighter. Maybe we shouldn’t count out the possibility but I think it has to be something else than allergy, possibly weakness in some of the mussles used, it takes a good while to train a few mussles you don’t normally use, but you do use in flute playing.
Sometimes one may get tingling
from nerve pressure
due to crinky neck posture and so on.
henke I am not sure…
because my lip is red and burns and skin of my chin burns also…
curious.
berti