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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-10-31 06:10
I just can't seem to get away from that instrument lately. Here we were talking about it here earlier, and what do I get but a gig playing English horn in a Vaughn Williams opera! Actually I'll have to double on oboe as well.
I just got the horn I'm going to be using tonight. I had forgotten just how much <i>easier</i> it is to blow through an English horn than an oboe. You have to use a lot more air, but the pressure is nowhere near as intense. That's the first time I've played an English horn in four years or so. It's a Loree, and it's a totally sweet machine... for an English horn.
And oh my god that reed is huge!
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2003-10-31 08:21
Here in Europe, we don't call it the English horn, we call it the Cor Anglais! I love the sound of the Cor.
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Author: Davide
Date: 2003-10-31 09:57
Hi,
have you ever played a baritone oboe?
It's really fantastic!! But you need much more air and the reed is what you mean a huge one!!!
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Author: d-oboe
Date: 2003-10-31 23:05
hehe...hope you got a good bocal to go with...
D-oboe
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2003-11-04 19:23
Playing on a good Ehorn can have it's fun and gratifying moments. But if it's a bad horn or reed, I always end up almost pulling an Oedipus on my eyes...quite frustrating.
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Author: bizkitbrain1516
Date: 2003-11-16 21:20
grrr....i had no eng horn for my carmen intermezzo solo....had to give it up to the first oboe....hissss.....
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Author: TorusTubarius
Date: 2003-11-19 21:42
Well the opera is over now, and while it was fun while it lasted, in a way I'll be glad to see the old English horn leaving my apartment. It was screwing with my oboe playing! English horn is just too easy to play!
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