Author: Oboelips
Date: 2011-06-10 18:11
My teacher always taught that you could 'blow notes in' to your instrument. Whether or not it's the instrument or you making the adjustment is unknown, but if you work at it, it will happen.
I do not subscribe to oboes being 'blown out'. I think it's possible that they 'die' if not played. Last year my Rigoutat was in the shop, and we rehearsed for a ballet. For this rehearsal, I played my 'spare' oboe, a 90-year old Loree. After the rehearsal, the ballet master singled me out to compliment my beautiful oboe sound. That old oboe still 'has it'.
I do notice that each time an instrument comes back from the shop, I have to 'play it in', to feel 100% with it. It takes about a week of nightly practice. Is it me? Is it the instrument? I don't know.
I'm in the midwest, and always buy used (with the Rigoutat, it was several years old, and had belonged to a pro, who I am sure, knew more about oboe selection that I do!) but with our erratic opposites of seasons (snowy, often sub-zero winters, hot humid summers to rival the south) I don't want to have to break in an oboe.
But, as we all know, "Some oboes are not good oboes."
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