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Re: Do you play thumb on or off?

Author: newedit617
Date: 2014-08-29 23:33

The oboe I used throughout high school and college -- a Rigoutat RIEC -- was ergonomical enough that I could comfortably rock my thumb to activate the octave key. I have pretty small hands. Now that I have a Marigaux 901 oboe, I noticed that the thumb octave key is higher up the instrument. So it is almost impossible for me to place my left thumb close enough to the octave key to rock it without a huge stretch, because the other fingers of my left hand are lower down. I think I do lift my thumb off the instrument to use the octave key because of the distance. It would be great to add a keyplate extension so that my thumb could be in a comfortable place on the instrument.

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