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You need a good embouchure to play the flute or the shakuhachi. From the French bouche 'mouth' from Latin bucca 'cheek'.


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Embouchure can also mean the mouth of a river. Interesting: both uses mean strictly that something is flowing out of and not into, whereas in thinking of a human mouth I think of things going in probably more than I do coming out. Babies putting things in their mouths, etc.


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