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Author: Jim22
Date: 2017-11-30 04:31
Its pretty overwhelming. I hate not being in control. I have been pretty successful buying and tweaking hand made reeds, but making my own is a bust so far, and i spend hours at it. My oboe is definitely limiting me too at the moment. I'm 53, i dont have 40 years left. I may have to make the choice to concentrate on playing rather than reedmaking, but i still need to work on adjusting them. I'm just a little down on it right now because i tried to perform a piece over the weekend and insort of crashed and burned. I was ok warmed up in rehearsal, but choked during the performance. It was a deceivingly tough piece, 4 flats, lots of alternate fingerings.
I think to be successful on oboe one needs to have passion for it. Otherwise, learn flute, or maybe clarinet. A C clarinet would be convenient. How about a C tenor or soprano sax? That would fix the non-octave thing.
I do have passion!
Jim C.
CT, USA
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Andy_uk |
2017-11-23 23:44 |
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Jim22 |
2017-11-24 02:37 |
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Chris P |
2017-11-25 22:29 |
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Jim22 |
2017-11-26 01:50 |
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mschmidt |
2017-11-26 09:18 |
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oboeyogi |
2017-11-26 15:05 |
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Andy_uk |
2017-11-26 18:23 |
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EaubeauHorn |
2017-11-28 02:41 |
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Barry Vincent |
2017-11-29 04:02 |
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mschmidt |
2017-11-29 09:49 |
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Jim22 |
2017-11-30 04:31 |
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2017-12-02 20:16 |
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2017-12-07 20:23 |
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