Author: vboboe
Date: 2005-07-16 16:24
... surfing a while ago on a French website, oui en francais, saw some bombards which are like rugged country cousins to refined town conservatory oboe, French seem to treasure quite a wide variety of folk-style oboes in various sizes, very basic fingering just like recorders, with different names for each size, might be worth looking into those options for jazz rather than the basic plastic student or refined concert model oboes?
... would need to make your own specialized reeds, couldn't just use commercially available reeds
... also musicians from India play the shanay, shanai, other spelling variants, which is their folk-style oboe used in folk dance & religious music
ditto comment for reeds
... methinks this would be excellent playing use for fibrecane type reeds, talk to the company's jazz enthusiast and see if folk-oboe imports with appropriately designed fibercane reeds can be facilitated by american-style business enterprise?
... playing the reed for jazz is different technique, but it really shouldn't be raucous, shrill or painful
... if it doesn't sound good, embouchure technique may need a lot more work, jazz oboe should be sweet music to the ears or potential consumer audiences just won't fall in love with it
... need a really great embouchure for the challenges of controlled buzzing, glisses, multi-phonic effects, over-blowing, etc. and embouchures don't develop overnight, takes awhile to get the right mix of firmness and flexiblity, so learn oboe the standard way at least six years first
... if somebody says it can't be done, that somebody is the one who can't or doesn't want to do it, find somebody else
... what we oboe-lovers need is a really gifted jazz artiste with real style on the reed to charm a following of folk-oboe enthusiasts over here
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