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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000006.txt from 2008/01
From: Oboehotty@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Oboe - flat second octave key notes
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:29:36 -0500
Hi everyone,
Its been a while since I have written and I hope that everyone had a
wonderful new year.
I have a college student who for some time I have been puzzled by her
problems. No matter what I do or say, she always goes extremely flat on the second
octave key notes (A, B, and C). I have tried every analogy I know to get her
to open up inside her mouth and keep enough firmness against the reed (short
of biting) to keep them up to pitch with no success. I wish I had a tool to
see inside her mouth and throat while she is playing, to identify what she
might be doing wrong. She has even switched oboes from an older Marigaux to a new
Fossati Artiste. I have tried many different reed styles with her, and
nothing seems to work, short of her biting the heck out of the reed on that note.
She has some minor pitch issues all around the horn, but nothing that is out
of the ordinary that we don't experience on the oboe (low D, high c and c#,
etc..)
I am puzzled -- any suggestions?
shawn
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