Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-07-11 12:56
So am I understanding this correctly? You're saying that your son has had a total of four days' instruction from an oboe teacher, and that was it?
If so, then needless to say, he needs another oboe teacher as soon as you can manage it, because there is a very real danger that he will get into bad embouchure habits--biting down on the reed with the teeth as the mouth muscles turn to jelly and are no longer able to "hold" is the most common, the most notorious, and the hardest to correct later. There's a knack to the oboe embouchure, it's different from clarinet embouchure, and he's going to need to touch base with a real oboe teacher, I would say before the end of the summer at least.
So I wouldn't worry too much at this stage about him absorbing his teacher's prejudices. Any teacher, no matter how "pro-Loree" or "anti-plastic" or "Cleveland sound" s/he is, will agree on proper embouchure and other basic technical stuff, so get him off to a good start in that respect, and he can figure out for himself later that his teacher is kind of a nut on the subject of Gillet.
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