Author: JRC
Date: 2011-08-20 13:59
Every one of us has different lip structure and control range, teeth structure, and embouchure muscle structure, and mouth and nasal cavity structures from others. All these factors and your reed and instrument, even room acoustics and atmospheric conditions goes into your unique tone. All these allow you to make the sound you make. However, the most important factor in your tone is your preference. Your mind controls all of the muscles you have in making tone. Other than your unique body parts, your control is limited to reeds and instruments.
Now here are basics you could try.
Try different reeds: short scrape (German and French variety) and long scrape (Phili and Mack and other styles). Try easy blowing and more resistant reeds. Eventually you need to develop your own reed style.
Try different oboe: There are increasingly smaller field of choices in the world today. Even smaller in America. Most popular brands in America today, Loree, Laubin, Hiniker, Marigaux, Howarth... are thicker walled and designed to respond well to dark and creamy tone. If you like brighter and fruity sound, your choice is rather limited. Perhaps Rigoutat classique may be the only model today available that make oboe respond well to this type of tone. Or most old European instruments over 50 years old, Loree, Marigaux, Rigoutat, Chauvet,.... would respond well to this type of tone. They also respond reasonably to dark creamy tone. Some modern oboes simply do not respond well to brighter fruity tone. There are great advantage to having modern oboe as they are much more tolerant to larger range of reeds conditions as long as your are trying to make dark and creamy tone, i.e. not as sensitive to reeds. To some people that is not good because it does not respond sensitively to attempts to make subtle different tone.
Make your own tone that you like. Once you have good idea what kind of tone you like, it is only matter of time you find the optimum combination. No one can tell you how to make YOUR good tone without having the same physical conditions and idea of good tone.
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