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Author: Aussieoboe
Date: 2012-02-10 10:38
Hi! Can anyone recommend a method book for kinder (tiger) oboe? Thanks for your suggestions!
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2012-02-10 13:45
Kinder oboe? (Presuming that this is kin - der, as in Kindergarten, not a kinder, gentler oboe. As if!)
Never heard of such a thing -- tell us more!
Susan
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-02-10 16:58
I think you can order them directly from Guntram Wolf.
It's an affordable musette!
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: GoodWinds ★2017
Date: 2012-02-10 20:02
back to the main question...
I think perhaps a recorder book might work, because the blurb seems to say that fingerings are like a recorder.
I've wondered now and then how a recorder with an oboe reed atop would work... would love to try one of these but haven't the pennies right now. What a cool way to introduce oboe to younger folks.
GoodWinds
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Author: WoodwindOz
Date: 2012-02-10 21:11
I tried one of these a few years ago at a Conference in Perth. They are extremely lightweight and easy to blow.
My advice would be to learn the fingerings separately (I'm sure Guntram had fingering charts), perhaps using scales and then using an oboe method book to practice songs using the separate fingerings. Or else, ignore the oboe fingerings in the book when it reaches each new note and substitute in the correct one.
Abracadabra Oboe is a great beginner book with short songs in progressive order, available in most good music shops around Australia (assuming, Aussieoboe, that you are actually in Australia!)
Whereabouts are you? I am a Perthite currently living in the US to study.
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Author: ptarmiganfeather
Date: 2012-02-11 04:01
How cute!!! I want one for my boy. He is ALWAYS trying to get into my reeds and sometimes drinks my reed water if I don't dump it fast enough (gross, huh?) He will be 4 this summer.
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Author: oboeagogo
Date: 2012-02-11 04:07
It is very cute but I might be concerned about learning fingerings for an "F" instrument and then when moving to oboe re-learning them as a "C" instrument. Rigoutat has an instrument much like the GuntramWolf "Tiger" that has few keys, built for smaller hands and has fingerings more like the Baroque oboe and is pitched in "C". Unless you've already made the investment you might check it out at the Rigoutat site.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-02-11 10:44
I think with the Tiger oboe you're best off playing transposed music so the fingerings learnt will still be the same as a C instrument.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Aussieoboe
Date: 2012-02-13 00:49
Thanks Everyone!
I have a class of 7 and 8 year old tiger oboes which I teach as a group. I have started them off with c oboe fingerings, as I thought that might be easier for them. They are all going well, which is a surprise- and actually don't sound as loud as a group of recorders! There is non of the usual, "i can't get it to speak" or "it's so heavy my thumb hurts" problems. I think I'm going to start them on the abracadabra (thanks WoodwindzOZ) and then after that I might have to write some material for them to use.
Thanks everyone for suggestions-
Aussieoboe
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Author: ceri
Date: 2012-02-15 07:41
How do you get on with reeds?
My daughter used the Rigoutat simplified model when she started as a rather small nine-year-old. While she found the oboe itself easy enough to play (and switched easily to a "small hands" Rigoutat Delphine oboe after about six months), I was appalled by the number of reeds she broke. She would catch the tip on her jumper or on her hair, bang it on her lip instead of putting it in an open mouth etc. Her teacher (also mine) said that this was "normal" for young children and that others were worse. Fortunately her teacher sells his reeds very cheaply, otherwise it would have cost me a fortune.
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Author: Aussieoboe
Date: 2012-02-26 11:18
Hello!
Yes, reeds are a problem as always! I just made easy handmade reeds for the older students (8yrs and up) and for the smaller ones (6 - 8 years) I used a plastic reed which have lasted the six months so far, although, it can be said, are pretty loud!!! As long as the parents don't mind, I think it's more important for the children to play easily and enjoy making sounds rather than to battle the reed every week- so the plastic ones have been good.
Any other suggestions?
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