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Re: Delicate little oboe...

Author: OboePrince
Date: 2015-01-28 20:28

HAHA that is so funny. Never have I heard such disdain for the reed out of an oboist before.

However, I drop those puppies all the time and they don't break. However, I threw my oboe completely out of playable alignment by CLEANING it. I released about an 1/20 of the tension on the side octave key and nothing would play. I did this while oiling and CLEANING my horn. The stuff I and supposed to do to take care of it.

I don't even bat an eye if another flautist, especially one in the studio, needs to borrow my flute for something and I dropped 7k for that bad girl (Miyazawa 404). I have dropped it on the floor during wind ensemble. If one little tiny thing get's 1/8 of a mm out of place it doesn't defeat the entire horn, and I also didn't mind letting others use my flute because it just takes a LOT to screw up a flute. I was even more liberal with my Clarinet, those things can take a beating.

My RIEC oboe however, which was not as pricey as my Miya, I only paid 2500 for it (which is a steal, considering it had one other owner and he went to my high school) but I would not even DREAM of letting another oboist borrow my oboe for a few days. MAYBE if theirs was screwed up, I could put it together, and hand it to them in their seat, MAYBE. But I'll be damned if this is not the most fickle piece of wood.

I don't really have reed problems because the humidity (even though the temp isn't) the humidity in Kentucky is pretty consistent. I just have hate for the person who created the key mechanism for the full conservatory oboe, and made it so delicate that you can throw of one thing by the tension of a spring. On my flute, if there is a spring out of place, I reach in and fix it WITH MY HAND, it's just not as simple on oboe.

However, oboe is my principle horn now (damn this destiny) rather than one of my two secondaries. One because of the market, but mostly because of a thumb injury.

It's just coming back to it full time like I have I am re-realizing how damn mean and vengeful this instrument is. "Did you just stick a chipped reed in me? What am I a Yamaha? That's fine, screw you, I'll only be playing in the color of bright and flat today."

mean little horn.

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