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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2004/06

From: "Sameer Alabdullah" <simsim29@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Vibrato, Sindbad et Thousand Night & Night
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:18:53 -0400

Rhonda,

Yes I do get my best vibrato on the D (4th line). IN fact it was the first
note i ever got vibrato on. 2nd F however is still not a great success.

I noticed that if I play a specific note quite alot I develope a good
vibrato on it. I have this Arabic warm up exercise that consists of long
notes mostly D. I noticed time after time the note (D) was resonating better
and better everytime.
Recently I started this other Arabic style Thousand Night and a Night melody
which focuses on the note A. The same thing happened here as well.

I think it IS the balance between airspeed and emboucher that effects
vibrato, but the question is, how can one maintaine such balance as we go up
higher in notes which requires stronger air flow and tighter emboucher as
opposed to a relaxed emboucher and weaker air flow on lower notes?

Last question, did you think about it as you learned the oboe and it just
happened all by itself?

Sameer Al-Abdullah

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