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Re: split lips

Author: vboboe
Date: 2008-10-05 17:13

... it might also help to use a very fine file to sand your reeds to a really smooth surface while you're trying to heal your lip?

... the important underlying issue here is physical tissue damage from excessive / prolonged playing, this is destructive physical strain, and you're being forced to abuse yourself with that savage rehearsal routine, and you do not have to stand for it. You must protest. Perhaps it's simply a case of blind ignorance on the rostrum that needs re-educating? Firmly.

... day long / weekend rehearsals must be exhausting / physically straining other musicians in your group as well, perhaps a frank discussion with your concertmaster to represent the group's concerns (after the concert, in the post mortem period) urgently requesting essential changes to rehearsal routines in future, with a proposed alternative that will work for everybody already mapped out for presentation

Are you the lead / only oboe? If not, then discuss it first with OB1, but ultimately it's up to you who is suffering to bring it to the attention of the right people to make necessary changes. Ask every member in the woodwind section to get their input in full, and also grasp an idea of how the other sections are faring during breaks by chatting with their section leaders before taking it to your concertmaster

If your artistic director / or important key members in the group are the kind of people that believe in 'no pain no gain' then you're in with the wrong crowd for the present capacity of your playing condition

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