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Author: FT
Date: 2002-01-17 20:14
Why??? I noticed that with the oboe, you can only play for 5 minutes the first week. The clarinet is 30 minutes the first month. Why is the oboe so fragile?????
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Author: Wes
Date: 2002-01-18 03:41
Until the beginner gets the embouchure figured out and also finds a good oboe reed, he/she may find it difficult to play for very long. After years of lessons and practice, the endurance of an oboe player may approach that of a clarinetist.
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Author: willie
Date: 2002-01-18 04:31
Mark's right about the holes. An Oboe has many small tone holes, much of which are close and in alignment with each other. Every tone hole exposes more wood grain "ends" to the moisture therefore allowing the wood to absorb water in that area at a faster rate in that area say than the lower areas that have no tone holes. Water causes swelling. Heating up during playing then cooling down after playing compounds this situation on all wooden horns. Thus it is wise to follow the breakin instructions that come with the instruments like as provided with Buffets. Let it expand slowly and keep your fingers crossed. I recently used this break in procedure on an old Pedler that I restored as it sat in its case for over 50 years in a dry climate. It was about a month before the rings finaly got tight.
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-01-20 10:28
Compared with clarinets the wall thickness is far greater relative to bore diameter. This means that any swelling inside the bore is much more likely to split the outside. Imagine how little splitting problem there would be if the wall thickness was say 0.5 mm.
Oboe keywork is particularly rugged. This is because the metal is very thick for the small size of the keys, there is a large number of supporting posts, and there are no large keys having short pivot tubes (hence great leverage) as with the side keys and register keys of a clarinet.
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Author: javier garcia
Date: 2002-01-21 12:11
Gerard Fossati (paris) has developped a new system for the two trill holes placed above the LH fingers. According to Fossati, this system (one hole) reduces crack's risk.
see:
http://www.fossati-paris.tm.fr/
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