Of Lip Slurs and Taffy

As performers and teachers, we often deal in visual imagery to help evoke the right physical response.
When I'm playing my slow lip slurs, I want to maintain an unbroken airstream as I move from note to note.  It helps me to think of my embouchure as SUPPLE AND MALLEABLE instead of BRITTLE.

For the air during these lip slurs, I like to think of an unbroken stream of air connecting the notes.  Like that taffy-pulling machine above..... (or below)...