Author: cjwright
Date: 2014-08-26 12:31
I don't understand.
Are you talking about taking the thumb octave off as you use the side octave?
Or are you talking about your movement between using the thumb octave, and not using the thumb octave, you disconnect contact between the thumb and the oboe?
I am a 6'4" man with extremely large hands (188cm) and I keep my thumb just below the thumb octave, and rock it up to contact the thumb octave when needed. You only need to barely touch it, not slap your whole darn thumb on the key in order to trigger it. I feel very strongly about this topic, so I won't ramble much further, but I will say that everything about my technique and what I teach my students is cutting down on wasted motion, whether that's keeping fingers very far away from keys, pressing down extra fingers, or creating more tension than is needed. Lifting the thumb to put it smack on the thumb octave would be a lot of wasted motion and fraction of seconds for me.
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