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 Re: The Music Man
Author: Joseph Tomasso 
Date:   2011-12-15 06:35

I treat English horn as a separate instrument completely from oboe. The fingers are basically the same, and the embouchure uses the same muscles, but I sound absolutely terrible on EH if i'm not playing daily. Try doing your scales every day on EH instead of oboe for a while (hopefully you're doing daily scales!). I recently did some English Horn for a recording session and the key for me was just about 2 weeks of simple prep work to get my sound consistent. I was first a saxophonist who became a clarinetist who fell in love with the oboe, so perhaps with the double reeds being my most recent instrument I lose my chops faster.

Make sure you have a variety of reeds. I don't know this book, but chances are you're going to be playing it cold with big solos, or playing it cold with excessively technical passages. I almost always have an "uh oh emergency lyrical solo" reed on hand versus a "no one can hear me" board of a reed I can blast away on without sacrificing for the pretty moments.

Just my 2 cents!

Bachelor of Music, Sax/Clarinet Performance (2005, 06)
Master of Music, Multiple Woodwind Performance (2008)
Master of Music, Oboe Performance (2013)
Gainesville Chamber Orchestra (Clarinet)
University of Florida 2010-2011(Visiting Lecturer in Woodwi

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