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Author: vboboe
Date: 2004-11-12 01:19

Hi there
Chit-chatty newbie gushy stuff below questions, might want to read it before answering questions

MY TWO QUESTIONS OF THE MOMENT

1. My Borg tuner informs me my singing voice is predominantly sharp, even my deeper range (second alto)

My embouchure is tight (weak) just now, so that aside, hopefully will get stronger and therefore more relaxed ... but if my singing voice is sharp, and I do mentally sing the notes as I go along so vocal cords instinctively adjust ... will pitch, tone and vibrato always be sharp for my playing?

Or can I blame the tuner?!?

Does anyone have any suggestions to compensate, adjust, do things differently?

2. Any embouchure development exercises between daily practices that can be done at my desk at work?

CHIT-CHAT
(long sustained note, dunno if it's tone compatible)

Just discovered this great forum for oboe enthusiasts WOW!
Have learned a great deal from all of you internationally this afternoon, thank you all
Have discovered my rental Yamaha 411 is a worthy intermediate instrument
And I just thought it played easy and sounded good, especially playing Sakura (I like tunes in minor keys)

Had no idea oboe was such a well-loved instrument, with such a wild storm of controversial opinions about it ... just like recent US politics

Formerly learned to play on English thumb-plate oboe ... this Conservatory C is the trickiest thing to relearn ... who needs two fingers when a thumb would do? It gets wilder ... ya mean I gotta hit F# lower down to get a note higher than A, B flat and B? Jeesh

I think oboe is like the human voice in its infinite varieties
I feel oboe is a like a wild thing
Found the comment by whoever it was who wrote the oboe chooses you timely just now ... oboe spirit has plucked my heart-strings again, fell in love with it at sweet sixteen, didn't hitch up properly back then ... have a second chance now ... just picked up oboe again 30 or so years later

Haven't yet discovered my favourite solo oboist although I've got Holliger recordings to "worship" at the moment, plus all the unknown oboists in various orchestral recordings to admire for their years & years of hard work and training, including some of you online here perhaps ... applause, applause

My goal, a Christmas community band concert reasonably well-fingered and sounding sort of OK!

So I pre-soak my reed a short time in cool water (although I'm going to try the under-the-tap idea too), bellow my diaphragm, hollow my mouth, kiss the reed and T-tongue... omi .... yeah ... Peter & Wolf's duck sounds better ... boasting a little bit, I really do have several pretty good notes (mostly sharp!) ... now, all I've got to do is learn this harmonic fingering stuff for 3rd octave

Ran out of sustained wind ... time to pump out my lungs

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