Klarinet Archive - Posting 000325.txt from 2001/03

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] while on the subject of oboe
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 00:16:18 -0500

From: Stewart

It sounds like you have a good start on several instruments. Why not follow
your interests and play what you want to play? That's what music is
supposed to be about anyway!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura M" <sparks1517@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] while on the subject of oboe

> Hello All!
> Recently (the past 2 years) I've been basically sick of playing
clarinet.
> So I started doubling on flute. I don't want to play flute, but I wanted
to
> have something other than clarinet, and it so happens that we had a flute
> lying around the house. So now I play clarinet and flute. I love playing
> clarinet, it's just that the motivation isn't always there. When I first
> started playing clarinet, I had wanted to play oboe. I've wanted to play
> oboe since I was 3. I got into band when I was 10 (5th grade) on
clarinet.
> My father (a trumpet/sax player) and my band director had told me that
when
> I was in 8th grade I could switch to oboe. Well, 8th grade came, and I
was
> the best clarinet, so my band director wouldn't let me switch. I got out
of
> 8th grade and entered the 9th grade, I was the best clarinet there too
(I'm
> in 10th grade and homeschooled now) so the band director wouldn't let me
> switch. I don't want to completely switch to clarinet, but I would like
to
> at least try oboe, and maybe double on it rather than flute. Well, that
> would be my dilemma and I'm asking you in the clarinet world to give me
your
> input, thanks!!
> ~Laura M~
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