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Re: Do you play thumb on or off?

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2014-09-18 01:33

I just can't understand why the Conservatoire System Oboe doesn't have a thumb rest for the LH. All the other woodwinds have something to put your LH thumb on, even the Saxophone has a 'dummy' thumb rest. It seems to me to be one of those stupid French ideas that results in a very useful touch point for holding the Oboe securely been lost. I play a Dual System Howarth S55c Oboe.
I had a loan of a Conservatoire System Cor Anglais once and the first thing I did was fashion a LH thumb rest out of quality cork and 'blue tacked ' it to the body of the Cor. It made playing so much easier. The thumb action is to just slightly slide over onto the first octave key, very much like the Saxophone.
This was easily removed before I returned the Cor to it's owner with no trace of the blue tack on the wood .

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