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Re: vibrato

Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2008-05-10 16:07

I thought the vibrato in the video is fitting for the type of music he is playing, but how he is doing it physically was not like anything I've seen. My teacher uses some kind of throat vibrato; I use a gut vibrato, and over time it is starting to sound the way I want it to, with the same flexibility and "range of wideness" that I developed over many years on the violin. Most people seem to use what I call a throat (glottal?) vibrato, but when I have tried to do it, it breaks the sound up. Since I already have well-developed gut muscles from playing brass instruments, this was the easiest and most natural for me to develop. My teacher says either is completely acceptable.

I heard a wind quintet last Sunday here in town, and I just loved the oboe player, who is a young woman recently joined the symphony here as 2nd oboe. Especially her use of vibrato was exactly as I would have done on the music, and it was cool to hear someone do what I would emulate.

EBH

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