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Re: beginner oboists

Author: ceri
Date: 2008-11-14 16:27

I'm not sure that playing a recorder would help that much. I could tongue on a recorder and a flute but it took me quite a while to be able to tongue satisfactorily on the oboe. Two things helped: one was to blow out air at a high speed as if I was playing the oboe and tongue without the instrument, the other was to experiment with where exactly on the reed I was putting the tongue.

My daughter took over six months to learn to tongue on the trombone. Her teacher and I tried all sorts of things (including straws) and one day it just "clicked."

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