Author: Dutchy
Date: 2005-03-27 20:22
<<< What she taught me to do was to go "ooo" and then roll the lips inward, keeping them round, and tightening on the sides only, and leaving just the tiniest opening right in the center, which is where you put the tip of the oboe reed. Your lips should not be going up in a smile, and your chin and jaw will feel open and down. >>>
Compare and contrast with this. She says to go "ooo", too, but she's got a photo of a kid with a purportedly optimal embouchure, and her praiseworthy "flat chin and firm corners" sure looks like a smile to me. Adn it doesn't look "open and down", either.
http://www.oboesforidgets.com/tips2.htm
I do definitely take your point about the way that only a face-to-face with a teacher can give you stuff that the Internet won't, but I'm definitely not up to the level yet where I can call a stranger and ask her to give me lessons.
My goal right at the moment is to be able to play all the way through the first 61 exercises of the Essential Elements book without having to sit down and rest my mouth for five minutes in between every one. I spend more time resting in between verses of "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie" than I do actually playing.
Still, on the upside, it does begin to sound like an actual oboe, here and there, and my children have stopped fleeing the upstairs in panic when Mom gets the oboe out in the evenings.
Now they just shut their doors. So that's progress, I guess.
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