Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2012-08-24 10:50
Thanks Craig,
Yes, I agree with what you are saying completely. In fact, I have found it easier to play both loudly and softly with a more forward embouchure..... perhaps "free" embouchure is better termed. Thing is, this requires really stable reeds..... and stable oboe!
You play a Covey: I've only tried one at a weekend exhibit. I found it had a feeling of resistance at first, but this gave way to a feeling of relaxation. If I recall the instrument was perfectly stable, thus allowing for freer blowing and crowing reeds.
Lorées from the 1980's/90's (mine) have such trouble with stability that reeds have to be perfect, or else facial strenght becomes a real Olympian feat! Mind you, the weather over here , this week, has gotten more temperate and both oboe and reeds are behaving much more easily than a few weeks ago...
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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