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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000010.txt from 2008/01

From: Dan Duncan <danjduncan@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Oboe - flat second octave key notes
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:07:14 -0500

Just wondered, what about the pitch of the harmonic A, B and C? Are
those in tune? Have you checked that everything is correct with the
oboe?

Dan

On Jan 5, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Oboehotty@-----.com wrote:

> 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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