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Re: Engineers, Nurses and Bears! OH MY!

Author: huboboe
Date: 2011-04-15 04:36

I'm not an engineer. I started college with that intention but was playing in 6 local orchestras and never had time to do homework. Decided to call a spade a spade and learn music.

I played my first pro gig when I was still in high school in 1958, so I've been at it a while. Not having a first line job I did a lot of other stuff to make a living; one such was learning instrument repair, which led to learning machining so as to make better tools than were available, which led to a job in a tool and die shop where two of my colleagues, a clarinetist and an oboist, worked. We made wire cut dies for electronic components and spent a lot of skull sweat on designing clever ways to do impossible things.

Anyway that was what got me into gouger design. We can all list the things we don't like about our gougers; my thought was, 'Whadd'ya gonna do about it?' The machine I've been describing on the BB is the result.

A graduate of the SF Conservatory, I've subbed a lot in SF Symphony, played a couple of seasons of SF Opera, many seasons of SF Spring Opera, every other orchestra in the SF Bay Area. My 'regular' gig was the now defunct San Jose Symphony where I played for 27 years.

A friend and I founded the Midsummer Mozart Festival, now in it's 36th season...

I've always had a stable of students and I've been teaching oboe at Stanford for 15 years now...

Anyway, I've been around the block a few times and enjoy sharing what I've picked up over the years.

My wife is the high tech professional, brings home a tastier paycheck than mine. I'm the chief cook and bottle washer in our household. I think if I had it to do over again there's not much I would change. Music is the best damn team sport going, and I've played for (and with) some very good teams.

Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com

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