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Welcome to the oboe embouchure crash course! You're ready to use
this site if you've had only a few days of experience with the oboe!
What's an embouchure? Move your mouse over the blue word to find out!
We're going to show you the right and
wrong way to make your first sounds on the oboe.
Starting out on the oboe can be intimidating, especially if you've ever heard a
beginner, but by following this step-by-step method, you'll be sure to go From
Quack to Crow in 30 Minutes... or less! You'll see me (some guy), and
my assistant (a 10th grade überoboist) go through each step together on the way
to oboe success. Unfortunately I did not encounter much success with my own oboe
endeavors, but I'm sure you'll be different.
We'll present our immense knowledge to you in an easy to understand format. Each
section will begin with an introduction, which will be followed by additional useful
and useless information. You will see commentary on videos throughout the site,
and all videos will open in the box to the right. This site is designed to be used
while you have your oboe in front of you, but will also work if you only have an
oboe reed. You may want to get an oboe too, though I think the reed sounds pretty
nice by itself.
By the time you get to the last page, you will have gone From Quack to Crow
in (hopefully) 30 minutes... or less! If you feel you're still quacking
after you've followed our steps, you may want to consider switching to the viola.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We just informed him that you should never
switch to the viola. If you do not feel successful by the end of this site, you
did something wrong and should start over. Or was it us that did something wrong...
Don't forget to move your mouse over all the blue words
you see!
Special thanks to Barbara Cantlon for her work on the Embou-Sure oboe embouchure method, available
through WIBC Publishing, and to Dixie Detgen for her oboe workshop series presented
at Southern Oregon University through the American Band College. Without their extraordinary
knowledge, I'd still be quacking. I also want to thank my assistant, Dani, for helping
to bring me closer to oboe transcendence.
first: the reed
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