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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2003/05

From: Marianne Eelen <marianne_eelen@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] opening throat upper register oboe
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:22:38 -0400

Dear oboists, I'm a little confused about the opening of the throat while oboe playing. My teacher -whom I adore and is really very good!!!- took lessons with T. Indermuhle and M. Bourgue and he teached me an exercise to create a brilliant tone in the upper register: just take you're reed out of your instrument and blow a c on it (not crowing, but playing). Then, by changing only the opening of you're throat (making it smaller) move on to a cis and d without changing the lippressure!! Then play on the instrument the upper register with the narrow opening and the lower register with a more open throat. My big problem however is dat when I "close" my throat to play the notes in te upper register with more brilliance and energy, the pitch is much too high. My teacher says this is because my lip pressure is maybe to high, but when I play a high c and I don't change my lips and only the opening in my throat,its pitch is ascending too!!(and this is only a logical result of the exercise I think, since the pitch is also rising while making the opening in you're throat smaller when playing on the reed alone)In panic I consulted the internet about this subject and I did find an interesting article about it: http://www.idrs.org/publications/Journal/JNL4/oboe.htmlUnfortunately I'm more confused, since it stresses the importance to play with on open throat all up to the upper register with a high speed of air. The throat should always be open, this article says.Since the director of the orchestra in which I 'm playing also asks an open throat I'm desorientated in my oboe playing what's going on about my throat. Please, can someone help me? Thanks a lot, Marianne

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