Joined: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:35 am Posts: 172 Location: Cambridgeshire
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Try practising long notes BUT bend them up and down almost as far as they will allow. It doesn't matter if the notes 'burst' up to the next available note or falls off the bottom of the note. NOT with your hand in the bell but with your embouchure only.
The point is you are bending the notes up and down. You are in control of the apparent variation in pitch. You haven't 'got the wobbles' because you are in control of the variation in pitch and the speed of the 'bends' in the long bending notes
The other thing to watch out for is that the air stream is constant (it is a WIND instrument so blow the thing! Secondly be absolutely sure that the aperture in your embouchure is open all the time and maintains that 'oboe reed shape' (as mentioned by Farkas in his great book) all the time you are playing your long 'bendy' bending notes
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