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Oboe... fickle.

Author: sanya
Date: 2005-06-11 21:04

I've been talking about learning the oboe for a while now, and I finally rented one from my music teacher at school for the summer. Holy cow, it is hard! It's only like, my third day playing it, but my embochure for the oboe loosens up so easily. I'm guessing that's because I don't really know how to do it (learning from a DVD isn't that great), and I have my first sort of "lesson" on Tuesday after school with my music teacher, who, luckily is an oboist (clarinet is her second instrument). I'm finding that the oboe requires a lot more air, I guess, than the clarinet, and you know how there are some notes on the clarinet that you would just play, and they automatically sound good? No? Well that's how it is in comparison to the oboe. I sound like a duck being boiled alive. I guess that's my incentive to practice, though... it sounds beautiful when played by a professional. Also, the right hand fingerings are all extremely awkward. Any oboe players here want to lend advice on embochure and fingering adjustment?

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