Author: DrewSorensenMusic
Date: 2012-04-04 01:25
Well I just finished reading "The Oboe Reed Book" by Jay Light. In the spirit of the above comments, as maybe a contrupuntal anecdote, Mr. Light tells the following story:
"A part of the legend of Marcel Tabuteau, my grandteacher and the founder of the American school of oboe playing (whatever that is now), is the story that many of his students learned never to play their lessons on their best reed. Supposedly Tabuteau would say, 'This is a good reed, first you must learn to play on a bad reed.' Then he would either keep it for his own use or just smash it before their eyes." The story, and I've heard it from many sources, makes one shudder. Yet, there's a great message in it. The very best of today's oboists will admit that they spend a great percentage of their lives playing on reeds that are less than ideal."
I really don't know what relation it has to the discussion, but it's something that stuck with me as I closed the book.
Drew S.
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