Author: vboboe
Date: 2008-10-09 01:17
seems to me you need to pinpoint the exact problem in more detail
<<little too edgy for blending purposes>>
... it depends what kind of 'edgy' is in your sound, did you ask your critic/s what they meant, could they be more helpful describing it other than 'edgy'?
are you playing mostly too sharp?
if you've got one of those Korg tuners you can get an inexpensive pickup sensor clip for the bell of your oboe and cable plug-in to the tuner, and it will give you what notes you're playing on your instrument, first time i tried it, oh wow, what a revelation
are you playing a lot of upper register? and have you played up there extensively (year or more) already, or is it a new learning curve all at once? Until you've been up there awhile, training your ear to it and playing it relaxed, 'to the drone' tendency is to play too sharp
or, are you just blowing too much air, that kind of edgy, giving more impact to the notes than necessary?
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