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Re: Tongue'n cheek

Author: wrowand
Date: 2006-03-17 06:23

It wasn't a masterclass it was only one lesson with him. I was working on the Howells Sonata at the time and I asked him if I could have a lesson with him. It was at his studio at Northwestern during the summer of 1996 I think. It was around the time that he was recording the Schubert Arpeggione Sonata. He let me try his oboe that went down to low-A that de Gourdon had made for him so that he could record the Arpeggione. He's a great musician and has the best legato of any oboist I've ever heard. He's truly amazing.
Jan Eberle is a wonderful oboist and one of the best teachers I've ever met. She is such a careful player, no note, no phrase is out of place. She immediately heard a problem with my articulation -- I think it was my first lesson with her -- and she just told me to practice tonguing correctly, slowly, with the tip of my tongue to the tip of the reed, with the metronome on 60 doing quarter notes or eighth notes at first. It was hard to make a sound at all at first, and everything sounds spitty, but with enough practice it eventually becomes comfortable. It takes a long time to integrate it into your playing so that it replaces the motion that you're used to.
-Woody

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