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Re: Oh no Oboe

Author: Chris P
Date: 2010-10-03 21:13

Soprano saxes are in Bb but that's where the similarity between them and clarinets end - if you play soprano sax with a clarinet embouchure you will have tuning problems. With saxes the embouchure is more relaxed than on clarinet and you blow down to pitch as opposed to blowing up to pitch on clarinet.

The keywork is based on Boehm system and they overblow an 8ve like oboes (and flutes), six fingers down xxx|xxx is D in both lower and upper registers and all fingers off gives C# in both registers.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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