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Re: Vibrato

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Vibrato
From: gregors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gregor Spowart)
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 97 12:22:28
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Thu  9 Jan 97 (20:39:48 +1100), j.alexander@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>By the way how do you do vibrato on a brass instrument?   I can't
>recall seeing any "how to's" in tutors, and I suspect most of us figure
>it out for ourselves.   I've seen people shaking the instrument, their
>chin, or their cheeks.  There must be some who do it by vibrating their
>diaphragm... Is there a "best" way?
>

Well, in a book I have written by an orchestral trumpeter a few years ago now,
he recommends that to create a good even steady yet variable vibrato, you
should lightly 'wobble' the instrument since lips, throat, diaphragm etc are
all tied up doing other things.   Although when I use vibrato, i just use my
lips to create it since it seems that moving the instrument is more likely to
cost endurance, plus it looks a little silly...
-- 
Gregor Spowart <gregors@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

...... In case of emergency - RUN!!!!!!! ......


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