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Re: Can oboe players double tongue?

Author: kroboe
Date: 2005-10-20 09:07

I will try to describe my way of double tounging to perhaps give you a clue as to how to think. First, the problem is not the tuh which is a normal tounged onset . The problem is when you shut your mouth cavity off from the lounge pressure to say guh with the back of your tounge. The pressure of the trapped air volume up front still escaping through the reed will sink, causing the tone to loose pitch. The oncoming guh gives an explosive new supply of pressure to the mouth cavity tending to blow out the cheeks and increase the trapped air volume which will still be there for the next guh, which in turn makes it even harder to control the pressure and pitch. The problem therefore, is to keep a steady pressure of air behind the reed as you go tuh-guh-tuh-guh.
To do this you have to keep the trapped air volume as small as possible and keep a certain speed. This is what you do: Keep your cheeks firm and your yaw firmly in normal playing position. Yaw by no means too low. Support the sides of your tounge firmly against your upper teeth allowing only a small space between your tounge and your palate. Then think of your tounge as a teaspoon oscillating up and down alternately front and rear, pivoting around its side support. Try to think of all this going on up front in your mouth to decrease cavity and increase control. Now, put a reed in your mouth and apply air pressure and see if you can make it work. I find it hard to do this slowly, 6-8 notes/second makes a good rythm. When you get on you can vary your modulation by saying tokotokotoko for crisp staccato or a more sluggish dugudugudugu for detache' passages.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
kroboe

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