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Re: Vibrato

Author: MichaelW
Date: 2016-05-05 22:14

On string instruments, vibrato, as I recall from my violin lessons as a youth, is taught as pitch variation. The same on oboe: Alfred Sous, Neue Oboenschule, Edition Peters (free translation): „Vibrato means voluntary, regular pitch variations as opposed to tremolo... the tone is -shortly and fast- sharpened a bit ...“. I omit the explication Sous gives for this technique, for it is obviously wrong: he writes about „Hochziehen“ (pulling upward) of the diaphragm, which from anatomical reasons is not possible: the diaphragm can only be „pulled down“ - contracted- in inspiration, or it may counteract the expiratory pressure from the abdominal muscles in a controlled way as diaphragmal support, „Atemstütze“- and here also diaphragmal vibrato can be effected. So in my (amateurish) experience once trying to learn vibrato on the oboe was useful to get a feeling for diaphragmal support. Lip vibrato, btw., wasn't looked at as correct on the oboe.

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