Author: vboboe
Date: 2008-01-27 19:11
<<would you guys recommend walking around with a reed in your mouth to build up an embouchure>>
no, absolutely not
reed's fragile and any accidental jolt could cause you to bite down and crack it, or worst case scenario impale it in your throat, what a waste of an expensive good reed -- have respect for the hours of intensive labour that went in to making one of those and molly-coddle every single reed as if it was the last one on earth!
try using a 2 inch piece of drinking straw as a substitute for embouchure exercises, and use it only when you can give 100% mental concentration to the exercises you do on it
that's for maybe a couple of minutes several times a day, and not usually longer than 3 or 4 months from the time you began on oboe, these exercises only help to build up the major muscles of the face, neck and lips that hold the embouchure together, after that there's no substitute for daily work on the instrument itself
the thing to watch out for in the early days is blowing with pockets of air bulging around your gums, trapped between lips and teeth
your face muscles should fit snug around your gums so no air gets in there even when blowing with strong pressure
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