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Re: Reed question

Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-10-12 22:53

The Berio Sequenza 7 would be the 1st on my list of future performances with my trusty air oboe, that is after i get myself an air oboe, Chris does Howarth make one?

mosh
Date: 2006-10-12 00:04
"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."

Experienced this myself and was taught many times to do so and couldn't agree more.

ohsuzan
Date: 2006-10-12 17:59
"My teacher has me do them first of all to see if I can hold the reed (no hands) in my mouth at the proper angle, and hold it steadily enough that I can tongue on it without it bouncing around. I have the (apparently unusual) problem of having developed too loose of an embouchure (i.e., the antithesis of "biting"), which results in my playing with a too-loud and harsh sound. She tells me that I must be able to tongue the reed alone (while making a thuwt thuwt sound) without it bouncing around -- if it bounces, I'm not holding it tightly enough."

Somehow i feel that following common sense this would mean that the general reed placement would be much further into the mouth to make the exercise possible (seems like more biting), and to add that into the equation, means that the lips shouldnt be rolled into too much when doing this exercise? Will try it out today to see what comes up. Until now the only logical way for me to practise dynamics IS to play dynamics on the oboe.

Howard

Post Edited (2006-10-12 22:58)

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