Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-01-08 00:21
Need I say that my Lorée is all over the map? (but much better since the re-voicing) So were all the Lorées I have played, to varying degrees.... To me, the notion of an oboe that plays implicitly in tune is simply a dream!
=> by "in tune", I mean that using a stable reed, just blow and all notes in the chromatic scale will fall where they are supposed to.
The Yamaha Custom I was lent by the Army in 1993 was not bad, actually, and the "note centers" were more predictable.
Anyway, back to the subject of TUNERS!
I own a Korg AT-1 and my portable recording system (Zoom H4n) has a built-in tuner. My 1st tuner was a Boss TU-12 (very popular at the time) and have tried many others in the past (1998 and prior).
The ONLY one to ever handle the oboe properly is the Korg AT-1, not even other Korgs. What I mean by that is the tuners often pick-up the harmonics rather than the note fundamentals.
This is CRUCIAL, because the harmonics get "flatter" as you go up: ask any French Horn player!
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
Post Edited (2011-01-08 00:27)
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