is it ok to make vibrato with diaphram?

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Being a whistle-shaker myself, I would like to say that technically, this produces tremolo rather than vibrato, but why be picky? Just play me a tune and see if it moves me!

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Post by Miami Colleen »

Hi, Skywatcher --
YES, use your diaphram to make a vibrato! That is how you do it on all woodwind instruments (flute, oboe, sax), except the clarinet (which isn't played traditionally with vibrato).

The tinwhistle takes so little air to blow that you don't need to pump that diaphram much, as you probably have already figured it out. It's very easy to nudge the sound into a vibrato, providing you have a decent instrument.

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Hi BB,

What is the difference between tremolo and vibrato?

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Erik,
tremolo is a rapid reiteration of the same tone and vibrato is somewhat less intense with slight and barely perceptable fluctuations of pitch.:smile:Mike

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