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Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-03-21 19:30
From the youngest age, you could not keep me away from musical instruments: my mother's piano, the cheap recorders from grade-school, whistles with notes from the zoo gift shop... anything!
In 1st year of high-school, I was torn between the saxophone and the trombone. In 2nd year, the teacher introduced a new word: "hautbois" => AS SOON as I heard it, my hand darted up and I refused to give up my chance to play it. I did not even know what it was, but I had a picture (probably of an english horn) from Peter and the Wolf that we heard in grade 2.
The sound that I really had in my soul was actually the oboe d'amore. But the oboe (only thing accessible for many years) has always remained as the definition of who I am.... it's not something I "do", it's litterally myself. When I had to leave it in the closet during engineering school (actually, all music nearly ceased), I literally died inside. I only realized this 1st when my wife bought the piano, I cried from joy for days..... AND I'M EX-MILITARY!
When I started the oboe for real again last summer.... its more like thawing out a roast from the deep-freezer. Now, I get really terrified at the thought of any reason that would take it away from me.
"Robin des bois" is french for : Robin Hood (of the woods)
"Robin Des Hautbois" => Robin of the oboes!
But please note: I get really IRKED when people complain of how hard the oboe is and how impossible it is to make good reeds...... I never accepted this and I am currently proving the opposite!
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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