Author: oboeblank
Date: 2006-01-09 17:47
I am not sure at which IDRS conference this happened, but a bassoonist proved that there was no such thing as diaphragm vibrato. He had a laryngal scope in his throat and played with a nice healthy vibrato and to the shock and glee of some in the audience, his voice box/larynx was vibrating, and this bassoonist had always felt that he was producing vibrato with his diaphragm.
Accroding to the bassoonist, you start with your metronome at 56 or so, and give a hearty pulsation on every beat, then every eigth note, then eigth note triplets and by the time you are playing sixteenths, or even quintuplet sixteenths the vibrato should be in your throat-it's worth a try.
I learned vibrato with abdominal pulsation but I have noticed that it is in my throat, and I feel that the tone and colour is much warmer and more singing than using, for me, the slower diaphragm vibrato.
As far as the gutteral "cluck" of throat vibrato, I have only heard one person with that, and it was Elaine Douvas, and she herself will tell you that the "cluck" is not a good thing. You can, sometimes hear it in recordings of her if you listen for it, but she sounds like a goddess so who gives a crap!
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