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Author: Sandra
Date: 2001-11-30 16:22
Hello everyone...I teach clarinet students privately, and I've been asked by the school if I would teach oboe students. I know NOTHING about oboes. Please if anyone knows where to direct me where I can read about oboes (for myself to purchase) and accessories. I will search for a good oboe teacher here (again, for myself). I want to give young students a GOOD start. I know of no BB for oboes, and I don't have time to spend hours on the internet or on the phone. Help!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2001-12-01 15:06
Having TRIED to learn oboe [and English Horn] for our small symphony years on back, I found the greatest help re: playing and reed-making !! in an instruction book [believe it is still available, look on Amazon and B&N] by Leduc and Sprague [as I recall, cant find mine now!] . I did find a brief-booklet entitled "The Oboe Book" by E C Moore, pub. by LeBlanc [several more also] and once had a copy of Phillip Bate, "The Oboe" prob the best [older] book, check your libraries, and reference- loan services. While there are a number of good-pro oboes, Loree insts. have a virutal monopoly [greater than Buffet!!] and are expensive but V G. Its my belief that learning clarinet first will be very helpful, on studying "the ill wind that nobody blows good". Best wishes, Don
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Author: Aaron
Date: 2001-12-01 15:35
My advice would be to get together with a good teacher and take lessons. During a lesson take a notepad and ask questions. Go in and conduct the lessons like you are a beginner, meaning someone who has never played an instrument before. Thyis will give you the perspective of teaching beginners. I've done the same with trumpet this past semster in college. Being a clarient player I never really understood the mechanics behind playing trumpet, besides what one learns in a brass methods class. OUr trumpet teacher this year is a new one and a superb teacher. He'll be around here for years to come.
Anyway. Find a good teacher to elarn from and read books. But dont teach any student until you are prepared and have a fine working knowlegde of the Oboe. If you teach something wrong to begin with a bad habit can occur. And if you have ever heard many Oboe players, they already have alot going against them. I've found that out myself playing Oboe for one of the wind enmbles on campus(we're running a little dry on Oboe players this year). I'm having great fun with it though.
Anyway good luck.
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-12-01 17:36
Take heart.
"Band" teachers at schools throughout the U.S. teach music and varied instruments which they either can't play themselves, or have only a rudimentary understanding there-of.
I don't say it's a great position to be in. Indeed, it's at least stressful, especially in the begining.
While nothing replaces lessons from a teacher specializing in a particular instrument, you'll find that some students do well enough under these circumstances, albeit, some don't.
It partially depends on the student's motivation, his/her attitude towards his/her instrument and his/her desire to learn it. It also partially becomes a function of the teacher to try to ensure all these intangibles are in place during the student's tenure studying the instrument.
A rudimentary understanding of the instrument is the minimum requirement in such cases as you may be in at this time, and you can get that by reading and consulting other teachers, as a begining.
Although I don't play an oboe, I know those who do and read comments on the BB concerning them. They are apparently difficult to learn and have a buinch of idiosyncrasies you should, at least, know about ahead of time so you can develop your own good understanding of them.
Fingerings, etc. (as rudimentary knowledge,) you can get through a good oboe web site, and/or books. Make it a priority to learn about the double reed asap. They say it's a toughie.
I know it's not quite so simple, you'll have to work for it. But you are doing very well to seek information, etc., concerning the instrument and, from what I read in your posting, you seem to be a consciencious person and, if you apply yourself, you can't help but to do well.
Good luck with your new endeavour.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2001-12-01 18:18
May I respectfully comment that it might be good to get these oboe students to go to a professional oboe teacher. To only take up the oboe so that one can teach it doesn't seem like a great idea because it would take a lot of effort to get a minimal ablity. Coping with the oboe reed, the complex mechanism, instrument initial and maintenance cost, the fingering, and the techniques of sound production is a daunting task. One thing about the oboe is that all notes can be heard by everybody and are criticized, unless the player is really competant. After more than 20 years of working on the oboe, it is still a tough task. Good luck!!
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