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 Re: need some help.
Author: ohsuzan 
Date:   2005-11-25 15:17

<<Refine the tone by tightening mostly your lower lip, pulling from mouth corners, also pull lower lip a bit behind upper lip, and drop the bottom of your mouth a notch.>> (vboboe)

This is EXACTLY what I did during my late, unlamented experience with the Tuner Mafia ensemble, perhaps with an additional attempt at creating a sensation of roundness at the very center of the lips thus aligned (Jay Light's "anteater" embouchure, for those of you who know his drawing.)
It enabled me to stay under the radar, so to speak, of the director's apparent intolerance for any oboe sound.

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<<Another question, during solos, are you supposed to play in a manner such that you can be heard? Even though it's written piano. What about during in rehersals? Normal melodies with the other woodwind sections? My seniors are complaining that I play too softly and can't be heard at all. Am I supposed to blend into the rest of the woodwind section, particularly the flutes, or to stand out from the other woodwind instruments?>> (oboegal)

VERY good question, oboegal. As Howard said, we've been at this topic fairly heavily the past month. See this for a start -- there is more scattered about on other fairly recent threads.

http://test.woodwind.org/oboe/BBoard/read.html?f=10&i=2362&t=2362

Having said what you said here makes me think that one of your issues is a need to up-strength your reeds. If the perception of others is that you are not loud enough [I wish!], and your experience is that your reeds are collapsing on you, you may in fact be ready for a more-resistant reed.

Susan

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vboboe 2005-11-26 08:22 
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