Flute sounds like an oboe

[windchime]

can you make your flute sound like an oboe? I can. What is up with that?

I seem to be doing everything like I always do when it sounds like a flute but sometimes I get that closed oboe sound. I'm a beginner. I've been playing for 2 months.

Have you heard of this before?

Thank you so much. I can't afford lessons.

[pied_piper]

Through embouchure changes, many possible tone colors are possible with the flute. The trick is to learn to control it so that you can produce the sound that you want at any given moment in the music. Practice long tones and listen carefully to the subtle tone changes as you make small changes in your embouchure.

[James_Alto]

a lot of jazz flute players do this by using the 'growwl' technique.

I suppose if you're just starting, it's not that you're using the growl technique - you just don't know which technique to use lol.

If you try reading the Trevor Wye books on intonation, he talks about making your flute sound with a 'purple colour' or a 'yellow colour'. By moving the embouchure, you can alter the tonal quality of the flute, to sound more recorder like, or more oboe like.

Irish flute players tend to gobble up the embouchure compared to classical flute players - they prefer a thick deep tone, rather than the more fluid agile silvery Boehm tone.

Pretty much as Piedpiper says - long notes, practiced with embouchure variation, help define what kind of tone you can produce, and then aim for during a piece.

Best of luck!