Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2012-05-26 17:02
I am so obsessive about not blowing foreign matter into my oboe that I even worry about the gritty residue from the toothpaste after I brush my teeth -- rinse, rinse, rinse.
Ditto for brewed coffee. You know that sludge that you sometimes find in the bottom of a coffee cup? Well, I am one of those people who pretty much always has a cup of coffee somewhere close at hand. Then an oboe tech who was cleaning and adjusting my instrument mentioned finding odd little dark granules in some of the tone holes . . . Waah! No more coffee drinking during oboe playing.
I also carry floss picks as part of my standard equipment. Suffice it to say, ANY particulate material at all that was in your mouth can and will find its way into the bore of your oboe! Chewing gum stuck in your teeth? It WILL stick in your oboe, too.
Mary (Goodwinds), the "on the air, not with the air" maxim was related to me as having come from John Mack. The person who told it to me was indeed a Mack student, so I suspect that is the source. He did have a gift for the succinct phrase.
Susan
Post Edited (2012-05-26 17:04)
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