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Author: becca
Date: 2002-05-17 22:01
hello everybody,
can anyone please tell me how to do vibrato on an oboe?
thank you very much!
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-05-18 14:54
Here you go; I cut and pasted some of the things I've said on this subject from earlier posts:
There are two other ways to vibrate the tone: with the diaphragm (actually when you say diaphragm what's really doing the work are your abdominal muscles) and the throat, which is achieved by minute constrictions of the air flow in the throat. I prefer the throat since it's easier to get a vibrato which can be varied in speed and intensity with the throat than the diaphragm. The diaphragm to me always sounds slow and monotonous. However doubtlessly I would say that what I'm really doing is most likely some combination of the two.
It does become natural with time. Whenever I try to play without vibrato, that's when I have to do the thinking; to stop myself from vibrating the tone!
One thing to remember is that the vibrato shouldn't sound forced, and it's better to do too little than too much. I also found when I was learning to play that the more natural my vibrato became, the more it seemed like it was coming from my throat than from the diaphragm. Work on holding long tones and try to imagine little whisps of air escaping from your mouth and down the horn in the airstream. You can even do this without the oboe in your mouth.
Another thing to remember is that to make vibrato sound natural (that is, not obtrusive) you have to vary it according to what the phrasing demands of the music are. Listen closely to recordings of oboists you like, and try to understand what they're doing to get the maximum use out of the their vibrato. With practice, I promise it will become more and more automatic, and that's when you really start to feel like you're "singing" with the instrument.
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Author: band nerd
Date: 2002-05-30 00:52
It can get tiring doing vibrato with your diaphragm, especially when you're tired or sick. I'd never thought of using my throat for vibrato... thanks for the idea!
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