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Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style

Author: ohsuzan  Date:   2006-04-14 21:52 vboboe wrote: "QUESTION ... when playing just the tip, do you actually feel some 'buzz' sensation on the lips? " Aha! That was the antepenultimate question I asked my teacher, a week before I finally hit on the combination of air and lip that works for me. I was getting what seemed to be a promising sound when I "felt" the buzz of the reed. (She had said something in my lesson about her being able to feel the overlap of the reed while it is in her mouth, so I started getting all touchy-feely about it, too. Prior to that, I wasn't feeling anything. I think I was just numb from trying too hard.) At any rate, her answer to my question, "Should one feel the buzz?" was a resounding "No!" I was crushed. That's when I went back to trying to play on the tip, period. I figured, I know how to blow this thing so that it will make NO SOUND at all. So why not start there, and let up by degrees, until it is workable. And that's what I did. And it worked. And is still working weeks later, and becoming automatic, glory be! And my teacher says it's gorgeous -- high praise, indeed. On the way to casting off the embouchure chains that were binding me, I made myself a little check list, to which I referred literally every time I put the reed in my mouth. Here's the list: Pucker Tip Gut Nose Jaw I'll bet every one of you understands that list! In case you don't, just ask. Susan

Topics	Author	Date
Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-14 02:44
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	d-oboe	2006-04-14 11:57
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-14 12:19
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	d-oboe	2006-04-14 14:39
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-04-14 14:45
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	vboboe	2006-04-14 16:35
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-14 15:33
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	oboeblank	2006-04-14 16:11
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-04-15 13:33
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	oboeblank	2006-04-17 02:53
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-04-17 03:25
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-04-14 19:02
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	d-oboe	2006-04-19 22:16
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-14 21:52
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	vboboe	2006-04-15 01:31
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	vboboe	2006-04-16 20:32
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-04-16 21:30
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	vboboe	2006-04-16 22:24
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	vboboe	2006-05-06 18:46
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-05-06 21:57
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	jendereedknife	2006-05-21 09:01
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-05-21 18:07
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	oboeblank	2006-05-21 18:31
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GaryT1957	2006-04-15 01:34
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	sylvangale	2006-04-15 02:52
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-15 04:21
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	sylvangale	2006-04-15 05:15
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-15 12:58
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-04-17 06:46
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-04-17 13:04
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-04-17 17:12
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	vboboe	2006-04-17 19:51
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-17 19:30
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-04-18 05:20
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-04-19 15:25
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-04-19 17:36
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-04-20 15:24
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	angela@reedery	2006-05-01 18:32
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	ohsuzan	2006-05-06 22:35
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-05-07 05:03
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-05-08 12:49
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	wkleung	2006-05-09 03:09
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-05-09 03:51
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-05-08 14:13
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-05-08 23:17
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	HautboisJJ	2006-05-09 04:26
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	wkleung	2006-05-09 12:06
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-05-09 22:38
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	wkleung	2006-05-10 02:49
Re: Playing on the Tip/Reed Style  new	GMac	2006-05-10 03:05

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