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Re: A clarinetist thinking of starting the oboe

Author: D
Date: 2008-09-18 19:51

Dray,hope you enjoyit. I too am a refugee from the clarinet camp. One thing I have found really really hard is tuning. On clarinet I struggle with tuning, sometimes I can tell I am wrong (but not know if I should go up or down) and sometime someone else has to tell me (whereupon I crawl under my chair in embarrassment). On the oboe my tuning is so bad that I notice it almost all the time and I wont play it in public although I can actually play grade 6 and 7 pieces pretty convincingly (cept the tuning parts). Be prepared for this! You will almost certainly need a teacher to sort it out. Get a specialist oboe teacher. They are the endlessly optimistic and patient ones......

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