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Re: First Oboe Video

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2012-06-01 14:57

Drew, I think this video and comments should help you concerning the choice of instruments you made.

What Oboelips said in the other thread is invaluable. But also consider the very different needs of a doubler/multi-instrumentallist. If you do (and I hope you do) continue to play all the other instruments, then what you need is an oboe you can count on to make your life easier, not one that will require you to spend huge amounts of time mastering it.

I have not played many Foxes except for on2 2011 English Horn: that one impressed me for its feeling in the breath, dependable tuning and even sound. Then, I tried a 2011 Lorée E.H.... WOW, a feeling of freedom (compared to the Fox) just blew me away...... and later I tried an antique Italian EH.... the Lorée paled in comparison for its ample sound and free blowing and fully stable notes throughout the entire range.

Fox oboes COULD be a really good choice considering the following. Granted post 2000 Lorées play perfectly in tune and "wholfing" notes are much rarer, compared to Lorées of the 1980-90's. But they still have stuffy notes and resistance. Even the AK models are not the easiest things to play.... compared to the Howarths I tried.

The multi-instrumentallists I have known were obsessed with trying and comparing saxes, clarinets and flutes (oboes were harder to get hands on).

So your video seems to show promise that this was a good instrument to start off with. After months of improvement (rather than years for someone with no previous woodwind abilities), you'll be able to compare and perhaps decide to keep this on, or exchange for another.

Another thing, I don't know about clarinet, but flute and sax allow you to blow much more air volume than oboe, especially American Scrape reeds. Just to try out the comfort of oboe alone and also moving back and forth between instruments, you might want to try some short-scrape reeds.
=> I'd recommend asking Bret Pimentel about this, he does American Scrape
http://bretpimentel.com/

Best of luck - you're on the right track!

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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