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Re: Intonation

Author: oboeblank
Date: 2005-03-29 18:17

Here are a couple things to think of. Your pitch should stay well grounded and the more you play you should not go sharp. Train yourself to stay in tune. Could you be biting or clamping down with your jaw which is why the pitch is rising? Try to relax your jaw. If it was true that all of us go sharp when we warm up than orchestras will always end sharp and that is not the case when you listen to Cleveland, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago etc... RESIST the temptation to go sharp.

You ultimately have to play with other people or a piano and no one plays each note bang on at 440 with other people-if you did you would probably sound out of tune, even though your machine is telling you that you are in tune. Develop your ear and not your eyes.

The other thing I would say is that no other instruments tone is as telling about pitch as the oboe. If you play and the tone seems flabby and soggy, you will probably be flat. If your tone is shrill, brittle and rather small you probably will be sharp. If you play in the center of your sound and make the most beautiful tone you can and I bet you anything you will be in tune.

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