Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-06-11 19:02
The oboe embouchure is nothing if not flexible. You may find that you need to almost completely evert (turn out) your lips on the lowest tones, and roll in quite a bit for the highest tones. Just remember, though: it's the AIR, not the lip, that is producing the tone. Keep it non-biting, even on the top.
According to my teacher, every tone has it's own optimum placement. Over the entire spectrum of the instrument, you would be making minute adjustments all the way up and all the way down. In the case of extreme leaps (say, from high d to low d -- which does occur more often than you might expect in the literature), you might consciously roll out or in; for conjunct playing, it's more or less an automatic thing (at least, that's how I experience it).
Much more so than on the clarinet, I feel myself "in touch with" each tone as I produce it. It does become automatic after a while, though.
Susan
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