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 Re: In search of a smaller sound.
Author: mschmidt 
Date:   2010-05-31 03:44

Well, Cooper, I just haven't played enough different oboes to know what was possible, so the idea of a "smaller singing sound" seemed like something that might be possible. I don't think of a singing quality as having much to do with volume, but it might have something to do with how penetrating the sound is. Sound is indeed very multi-dimensional and hard to express in words.

I tried to figure out today just what I was trying to express about relative sounds of the Marigaux and Laubins; I think some of it has to do with what I call "fuzziness," to which I seem especially sensitive. I think for a long time I tended to make reeds too bright just to avoid the fuzziness, and lost focus. I'm getting used to having some fuzziness in the sound, and people tell me my sound is more focused, but I still hear more fuzziness than focus. The fuzziness may, in fact, be relatively inaudible to anyone more than a few feet away; I recorded the Marigaux and Laubins from across the room to try to get around this bias. But the recording technology (built-in mics on a Tascam DR-07) may have added it's own bias. Maybe I'll try again with the Sony mic....

I came away from the recordings yesterday thinking the Laubin had a more "nasal" quality; but my flutist friend today said that she thought the Laubin was "darker." WTF.

Mike

Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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