Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-08-04 02:22
>>Maybe I am misreading the post...
But I think it is the difference between volume of air and speed of the air<<
I don't think you've misread it at all -- and I think you are on the money with your diagnosis. Clear, concise, and helpful!
The air-from-the-bridge-of-the-nose trick is something I know how to do -- I was taught to do that to START the tone, and it works for me very nicely (somewhere on this server is a thread in which I detail my discovery of that particular technique).There has been a question in my mind, though, as to whether that technique is to be used to CONTINUE the air stream, or if it is just for starting it.
My teacher, when I asked about this last Spring, said she couldn't relate very well to what I was asking, because she hadn't heard about this technique until she was well into her career as an oboist -- and consequently doesn't experience it that way. (Her husband, also an oboist, is the person from whom I learned it. Go figure.) But she also has told me more than once that I need to lighten up and back off on my blowing -- just hasn't been able to tell me HOW to do that and still get the good reeds responding.
I suppose that what the bridge-blowing trick does is get the air speed ramped up. So, what I may need more of, in general, is more air speed, and less air volume. I can see that giving it too much volume would be the equivalent of overblowing and would result in a loud and somewhat strident sound.
Thanks to Josh, Howard, Clayton, and Damon also, for your input. Very valuable and vaild things have been written here.
I've also gotten several replies from my post on the IDRS List, which I'll condense and post here a little later.
Susan
Post Edited (2006-08-04 02:23)
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