Author: oboist2
Date: 2017-04-23 02:01
Thank you Gentlemen for your replies above. I have the first two octaves sorted out , and I was a thumb plate player for the first 10 or so years of my oboe playing life, had a 10 year break and then bought a conservatoire which I have payed ever since. As I have always preferred thumbplate, I will probably ( as I do with the cor) play it mostly with conservatoire fingerings when the thumbplate ones are awkward. I am aware that I cannot play those harmonics, but it is a loss I was prepared to make. I suspect that both the oboe and cor were modified for the player who owned them, as she also had a Loree, similarly altered. She grew up playing in Australia, and it is a rarity. I know a girl who played Automatic in NZ, but she was of Dutch heritage and the oboe was purchased by her musician father.
I don't intend to adjust the mechanism myself unless I have an impending concert and no other choice, otherwise I would send down to Richard Craig, who I have purchased these instruments through, but it would be nice to know what to do in emergencies, hence the question. The fingerings I really need are all the third octave fingerings and alternate fingerings up there as I do enjoy playing some of the 20th Century repertoire. I do have a chart published in Germany, but it is not very comprehensive and I cannot get some of the fingerings to work. Hope this clarifies what I need.
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