Author: vboboe
Date: 2005-05-30 04:23
... um, to add to the confusion here, Earl Clemens in Practical Hints on Playing the Oboe thinks it should be "the upper side of the tip of the tongue to the underside of the tip of the reed"...
Essential Elements 2000 says just stop breathing into the reed to arrest the flow of air ...
My olden days oboe teacher worked me pretty hard on first attacks and finishing notes ... release tip of tongue with a T sound when air pressure is brought up to optimum for the note being played for the dynamic required on that particularly resistant oboe ... and had me stop notes with tip of my tongue ... all the while attempting to adjust embouchure for tuning and constantly changing air pressure for dynamics or register ... ack, still haven't got hang of it all ... what the heck, just get tongue out of the way to blow the thing!
Clemens is also of the T-tongue method frame of mind which is why I comfortably quote his book ... however, I'm now old enough to realize there's more to tongue in cheek playing than that
... meanwhile, my band director sometimes reminds me to play legato, not staccato, which is the effect pressurized T-tonguing gives ... ack!
One thing's for sure ... the harder and more frequently reeds are tongued, the sooner tips will fray ... makes sense to me to reduce wear and tear on reed tips by using the most appropriate air-flow method that makes for the most expressive playing in the music ... so if you want to lick the reed tip or spit into it depends, doesn't it?
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