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Author: tiffany
Date: 2003-09-06 05:55
hiya!
i've been playing the oboe for 1 and a half years...
recently i've bought a new oboe....howarth S45C...can anyone give me some tips on this instrument...like how to keep it well...and the advantages and disadvantages of this model?
secondly, are there double-tongue and triple-tongue for oboe? if yes...how?
thirdly, i'm practising very hard on vibrato...as i have received different opinions from my teacher and friends...i was wondering what is the correct way of doing vibrato....
so many questions.....
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Author: miller
Date: 2003-09-06 09:40
for double and triple tounging you either go tucatuca (for double) or tucatatucata (for triple) i hope that helps
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Author: musichick
Date: 2003-09-06 21:57
Does that work for reed instruments? i know it works on flute, i didnt know you could double toung at all on doublereeds. although i did hear this amazing bassoon once double toung, so i guess it is possible...
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Author: Musical Mind
Date: 2003-09-07 01:56
Well, I don't really know about this reed thing, but I will talk about the vibrato. Vibrato is all about the control of the air. Do not vibrate your throat, your jaws, or your lips. You have to use the diaphragm. The diaphragm actually goes back and forth. And yes, it still has to be tight so you have a good air support.
Hope this helps.
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Author: the_oboist/flutist
Date: 2003-09-08 01:26
you can't double or triple tongue on double-reeded instruments. there is such a thing as doodle-tonguing which gives the same effect. i can't really describe how you do it, but your teacher might know how. it also really helps to have an extremely fast tongue.
hope this helps.
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-09-08 03:53
No, double and triple tonguing are both possible on the oboe. There are certain orchestral pieces, Don Juan for example, which contain passages that would not be possible otherwise. If you ask me how to do it, I won't be much help since I can't really do it either, but from what I understand, you make some sort of syllable like teeku teeku or tukutuku.
Vibrato is probably the most difficult aspect of oboe playing to try and explain. Good vibrato is really accomplished by both the throat and the diaphragm to some degree. A lot of the time what happens is a player starts out practicing making pulsations in the air stream like "tss-ss-ss-ss-ss" just blowing through his teeth. You can do this first at a slow speed with a metronome, and then gradually increase the speed with practice. This is all diaphragm work.
<i>But</i>, what usually happens is that as a player advances and the use of vibrato becomes more and more natural, the generation of those pulsations moves upward and are modulated to different effects in the throat. Using the throat can give you a greater variety of vibrato speed and the width of the pitch change.
So basically my take on it would be that yes vibrato is generated principally in the diaphragm, but is modulated by contrictions of the throat.
Oh and I know absolutely nothing about Howarth oboes, except that they are made in the UK.
By the way, Tiffany, given that you are playing a Howarth oboe and you wrote "practising" instead of "practicing," can I infer that you are from the UK?
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Author: tiffany
Date: 2003-09-16 11:06
no, i'm not from the UK.
Got a typing mistake......sorry.
.......I guess I'll have to practise vibrato for a long time.........
Yes....my teacher(he played the oboe for 40 years) can play the vibrato naturally......
Thx for replying my questions! it helps!
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