Author: Dutchy
Date: 2010-07-24 12:38
I have been doing this for over 5 years now. I have a Fox 333. And ever since I got good enough at it to be able to compensate for pitch with embouchure, I have struggled with my G2 note--it's invariably just a bit flat, and I always have to compensate for it. It's the only note on the whole instrument that does that (other than the normal tendency to flatness of the lower register).
So my question is, is there something about the oboe's construction that's doing this? Or is there some kind of peculiarity in my facial muscles or something, that means that every time G2 rolls around, the note falls into the black hole and comes out flat?
It's finally starting to bug me, because I feel like I ought to be past all that by this point, and it's only this one note. It's flat both to my ear and to my Korg tuner, so I'm not just having a Senior Moment here. I can get it up to pitch, but my point is, I shouldn't have to. All the other notes on the scale don't give me any problems, so why this one?
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