 The Fingering Forum
|
Author: saxy boy
Date: 2001-12-29 19:43
quick question, to make vibrato on the oboe, is it the embouchure(like sax), the diaphragm, or both?
Saxy Boy
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: Aaron
Date: 2001-12-30 15:08
Few things are as nebulous in oboe technique as the concept of what is "correct" vibrato. Vibrating the tone with the embouchure is somewhat of a no-no, but believe it or not some books I've read say that there are indeed oboists who use jaw vibrato successfully. Honestly though I don't see how one could do that without making the tone sound pinched and hollow since what you're doing in effect is strangling the reed at regular intervals.
So that leaves two other ways to vibrate the tone: with the diaphragm (actually when you say diaphragm what's really doing the work are your abdominal muscles) and the throat, which is achieved by minute constrictions of the air flow in the throat. I prefer the throat since it's easier to get a vibrato which can be varied in speed and intensity with the throat than the diaphragm. The diaphragm to me always sounds slow and monotonous. However doubtlessly I would say that what I'm really doing is most likely some combination of the two.
So to answer your question, no to embouchure, yes to diaphragm and/or throat.
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: bassoonbob
Date: 2002-01-02 00:48
when i played oboe i had lessons and he said the best way to produce a food vibrato is to use your diaphragm like flute players bassoon players
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
Author: beckee
Date: 2002-01-15 17:47
my teacher recommends either the diahragm or the throat, but i to find the throat a much easier method, although its the own individual players choice. using your diahragm is like using the muscles you use when you are sick (!) whereas the throat is like sayin 'wow'. so much easier!
|
|
Reply To Message
|
|
The Clarinet Pages
|
 |
