Author: MikeC855
Date: 2015-12-02 17:19
Here's another non-strap support system:
http://www.forrestsmusic.com/oboe_straps.htm#peg
In all frankness, I'm a bit hesitant about these "hard" solutions. Attaching stuff to the instrument - especially on or around the bell, even resting the bell on something - likely has a penalty in resonance. Cor is all about the deep resonance, and my playing style seems to really milk it. Don't know why, it just does.
On one hand I guess I shouldn't knock the hardware solutions until I experience one. On the other hand Russian Christmas is about the most trying work for EH endurance in the standard wind band repertoire, so I'm unlikely to repeat the need anytime in the near future. That is, unless the clarinetist I mentioned is able to get his bucket-list request for us to program that old arrangement of Dvorak's 9th, 2nd movement. At that point I'm hosed.
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