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"When people make promises it's always with only a percentage of themselves; he had heard it many times, weddings, confirmations, sworn blood brotherhoods. There is never more than ten per cent of the total persona behind the golden promises, because that is as much of ourselves as we control; it was true of himself as well.
But not this moment. This moment there was suddenly more. He could hear his body vibrate, like a wind instrument when the embouchure all at once succeeds and a great deal of the energy becomes the tone."
- 'The Quiet Girl', Peter Høeg.
The placement of the lips, lower facial muscles, and jaws in playing a wind instrument, or the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly.