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Author: d-oboe
Date: 2004-11-20 04:11
OhSusan,
Yes, every oboe player in the world has to suffer through this. I'd even go so far to say that only double reed players really suffer with weather changes...not single reed players.
But what to do? When the weather changes and the reeds sound terrible...is there anything that the poor oboe player can do?
The answer to that question is yes. The trick to being really good at oboe is not being able to make perfect reeds, but being able to play on the bad ones.
I try to make it my goal that I am able to play on all the reeds that I make, regardless of their sound quality. If I force myself through a practice session on a not so great sounding reed, I know that I have just become that much stronger, and more able to cope with the adversities of reeds.
The key to really dealing with reeds is having excellent air support *all the time* (really-when the reed is shrill and unstable it needs just that much more air to keep it behaving)
and having an embouchure that is very flexible and very strong.
Maybe we could call this a balanced embouchure? One doesn't want just flexibility- otherwise there would be no tone. On the other hand one doesn't want just strength - otherwise there would be no character in the tone.
Welcome to the club of the lamenting reeders!
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