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Re: i'm always sharp

Author: jhoyla
Date: 2009-03-17 07:15

Hello Mike,

Orlan makes this claim in the section labeled "Tonal Focus":
"In Oboe tone production, the air column needs necessarily to be focused on low d' as the fundamental of the oboe's natural scale, or, as the tone upon which the instrument is built. Fundamental-register tones are typical of the instrument in stability and of quality and pitch."

I was just paraphrasing the article; how Orlan reaches this conclusion is not clear to me. Perhaps someone more familiar with the acoustic construction of the instrument can enlighten us?

d is the first "white note" over the break (both octaves), so it does seem to be a natural choice for a fundamental tone.

However, I will say that I have found his analysis to work for me in practice on two different instruments. Focusing on the low d' and using it as a tonal "anchor" for all my note production really helped my stability of intonation and tone.

YMMV.

J.

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