Author: zhangray4
Date: 2017-11-07 05:55
I've played on the Cl5 for awhile. Sound projects well, but the sound is a little too spready in my opinion. For me it's not fatiguing since the tip opening is actually narrower than what I usually play on.
You said in your 2nd post that he sounds fine when he is relaxed, but his sound thins when he gets to technical passages. Being an 4 time high school All-Stater, 17 years old as well, I had that experience before, and it sometimes still a problem for me, but it's improved a lot. I think it has to do with unneeded tension, maybe biting, that's causing the problem. When we get to technically challenging areas, the tendency is to not care about our embouchure, tongue position, and voicing, and let our throats produce a kind of "eee" sound instead of "awwhhh" sound. Don't know if that makes sense, but no matter what I play nowadays, I think of "awwhh."
Maybe a pro will explain it better. Check out Albrecht Mayer teaching this concept to an oboist during a masterclass on the oboe solo in the Brahms's 1st Symphony (skip to 2:35 in the video): https://youtu.be/GZMxCOXWBzE
-- Ray Zhang
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