Author: rickw48
Date: 2009-09-07 11:12
Having learnt on a thumbplate (ring) oboe and changed later on in life to a conservatoire (plateau) system, I think that it would be much easier to swap the other way round - i.e. starting on conservatoire and then switching to thumbplate, simply because the chromatic scale from a-c is much easier to master with a thumbplate.
If you are changing from thumbplate to conservatoire, there is a really useful set of exercises by James Larkin on the idrswebsite
https://www.idrs.org/publications/DR/DR2.1/toward.html
Practised slowly for a few weeks, they really cement the feeling of having an "active" rh index finger. This is the hardest thing to achieve if, like me, you've been hardwired to using the thumb.
Incidentally, there are some things that are much easier on conservatoire - Fsharp major arpeggio being one them. Good luck.
Richard
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