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Re: Reed question

Author: mosh
Date: 2006-10-12 00:04

I agree ..... Comfortable reeds are the best option at all times...

REED ONLY EXERCISES

If you are looking to do building exercises for your embrochure you should just try "Reed Only" exercises.

Many teachers of mine have spent many hours doing nothing but playing on the reed (without the oboe), this builds up strength and can show your poor articulation very quickly.

There are various thoughts on the Pitch that should be produced with a normal embrochure when just playing the reed.

Some USA people i have meet play the reed at a C', i have done it at a B' for many years (with a short scrape reed) and in a class last year i had an international soloist suggest that you should keep the embrouche the same and "open up" the chest/mouth cavity to sound an A'.

This was a great insite and worth trying to see how low you can play without changing the embrochure, when you go back to the oboe it does open your sound up.

Another really hard one is to just play the reed without holding onto it, just with the embrouchure ( you can NOT do this if you're on those Chudnow staples - there just too heavy !) - after about a minute of playing you will soon get very tired.

Stop and do it again, it is a Chop BUSTER of an exercise, but if done daily will aide your stamana in the lips..

Just some thoughts

Mosh

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