Author: Dutchy
Date: 2005-04-02 13:15
Oh, okay, so you *are* supposed to take the reed out of your mouth to breathe? I thought the idea was to leave it in and breathe through your nose. When I see oboists playing on PBS ("Great Performances", etc.), I don't see them take the reed out of their mouth to take big gasping whale-spouting exhale/inhale breaths through their mouth--is that just an "editing" thing, then, and they *are* breathing through their mouth, only not just when the camera is looking? Or do you just learn to gasp for air unobtrusively? Or maybe you learn some biofeedback techniques to keep from turning blue? :D
My hot-glued reed holders didn't stick to the plastic of the pencil box, popped right off after a while, so now I am experimenting with holding them down with self-adhesive velcro.
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