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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000061.txt from 2005/01
From: "Miriam Williams" <mwquacker@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] thumb-rests/ oboe
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:18:14 -0500
sort of serendipity!
Congratulations on your discovery. I've always thought I'd like my thumb
rest higher on the oboe, and this would be very possible since I use MUTS.
Miriam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rhondda May" <rmay@-----.com>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 4:32 PM
Subject: [DR-L] thumb-rests/ oboe
> colleagues:
>
> just wanted to share with you all a discovery i made last night.
>
> in the past, i have fashioned simple thumbrest-extensions out of cork for
> students who needed their right thumb to be lower on the oboe than
> permitted by the set thumbrest. it's better than asking a young player to
> shell out lots of $$ for a proper adjustable screw-in one.
>
> last night i was practicing the oboe d'amore aria in js bach's magnificat,
> which i'm performing in 2 weeks. several years ago i had made myself a
> rather more "deluxe" extension (wrapped in chamois, ahh, such luxury!),
> but over the years and house-moves since i last played my d'amore it had
> disappeared. as i cast my eyes over my reed desk for something to use, i
> noticed a plastic eraser that my kids had left lying around. EUREKA!
> this is the perfect stuff to carve a thumbrest extension from - it's a
> good thickness to start with, and responds easily to an xacto knife. it's
> softer and just slightly squshy, thus easier on the thumb.
>
> i haven't figured out yet how to attach it to the existing thumbrest, but
> since i'm only playing this one aria and subsequent chorus, i may not have
> to.
>
> who'd'a thunk it??
>
> cheers,
> rhondda
> hong kong
>
>
>
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