Author: oboeblank
Date: 2005-03-28 00:51
This post has really nothing to do with reeds but...
The concepts that oboe teachers teach- "ooo", flat chin, corners in-all of these things don't really look like what they are supposed to. Your embouchure looks nothing like you are whistling when you are in playing position it looks more like a compact straight line, but the sensation to achieve that compact straight line needs the sesation of whistling, flat chin and corners in. It is always difficult when you are dealing in abstract concepts. We cane take heart that we are not singers, those poor people have some of the "sketchiest" teaching ever.
I would also like to address you fear or reluctance to search out a teacher. you are at the perfect point to put yourself in the hands of a capable teacher. Hopefully you have not created bad habits, which are really difficult to fix the longer you let them go on. There is nothing that teachers hate more in the world than kids and adults who have learned improper techniques because they recieved very little guidance in the formative months of playing because they are murder to correct. You may think that everything is going along fine, but a teacher can say one thing which will unlock everything.
I"ll tell you one little story. I had a 56 year-old woman start oboe lessons with me because she always wanted to. She showed up and had an orchestral excerpt book and played solos from the Brahms symphonies, with some difficulty, but after a couple of weeks things started to really click for her. She plays quite well now that she performs some solos at her church.
Teachers are there to help, look one up.
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