Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2005-12-12 11:43
I dunno, vb. I think you have covered it all. Especially the part about the reeds splitting for NO APPARENT REASON!!! (Just whacked another one this weekend.)
I have a bassoonist friend with whom I sometimes play duets (a different person from my teacher, also a bassoonist, with whom I often play duets and with whom I shared a recital program).
Anyway, when I go to my bassoonist friend's house, we practice in her basement room, which is always *cold*. Which my oboe does not like. It gets rheumatic and asthmatic and wheezes and gurgles the whole time. I try to explain to hmy friend that the size of the bore opening at the top of my instrument doesn't leave a lot of room for condensation. Show her the size of the weight on my bottom joint swab, demonstrate how this tiny lead bullet will NOT go through the top of the instrument. She is duly impressed, and turns up the heat, but comments that oboists are lucky to even be able to swab. Bassoonists can't. And she gurgles, too.
To compensate for the downtime caused by Esmerelda's annual/semi-annual vacations at the oboe spa, I am seriously contemplating finding a second good oboe. I've already sold my best clarinet to help with this acquisition. Gotta figure what's going to go next. The 411? My old R-13? My first born?
Ah, I feel your pain.
Susan
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