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Re: Why oboe?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-03-21 22:45

I think it's the pastoral sound of the oboe that I liked, most likely due to this theme tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkKfSqIx5bc&feature=related, then when I was 11 I finally discovered the name of the instrument to the sound (at 3:10 but he's miming) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQDKFRpMrbs that was it.

Then in early 1984 I found out there were three oboe players at school so I did bassoon instead as two of them taught at the school shared the only school's oboe between them (and the bassoon wasn't being played) and later got an alto sax. It wasn't until I was 14 when I finally got an oboe and then packed it up when I was 15 when I accidentally snapped it in half - I stood it up on its bell without a stand and splat!

Fast forward another 10 years and I took it up again in earnest after trying out a Marigaux that came in for repair and realised I could get a pretty decent sound out of a good instrument instead of the usual plastic B&H Reject and wooden Italian thumbplate models still doing the rounds with the local schools and education authorities that should've been condemned decades ago. Had I not heard Heinz Holliger's recording of the Strauss concerto I don't think I would've rekindled my interest in it.

So I bought an ex demo Yamaha 821TP to restart on and took the thumbplate off to get used to playing conservatoire system Bbs and Cs as they have better tone quality and tuning (and keeping more fingers down), but soon put it back on to make some arpeggios, intervals and tremolos easier.

But the main reason I took up oboe again was so I could play cor which I have far more passion for.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

Post Edited (2011-03-21 22:52)

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