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Author: vboboe
Date: 2006-09-10 03:17
... try Google search, select Images <<Baroque oboe reed>>
Pictures worth a thousand words -- modern style baroque reeds of course
10 baroque oboists in an opera orchestra pit take up less elbow room than 6 violinists
Back then wasn't the 'A' standard much more relaxed and mellow, around 428-435?
The skilled art of reed-making then (as now) would've been in making sure the upper & lower partial voices of nightingale, cricket, raven and bullfrog were all heard singing in the reed.
Baroque oboists would have been able to find wild stands of arundo donax on their travels by horse-back or carriage to and from playing engagements, could add to their supply of cane by cutting it themselves, feed the leafy top growth to the horses, and burn the debris in their evening fire without having any environmental activists on their case.
Gosh, just watching modern baroque oboists playing is an amazing sight to behold!
Just imagine modern concert oboists obsessing about their dainty reeds and fine precision instruments if they had to do a gig on the royal barge going up the Thames on a hot July day, playing the entire Water Music Suite several times and late into the evening for his majesty? Just think of Handel 16th passages and how fast those Baroque oboists had to cross-finger those open double holes playing hard wider reeds that probably would turn even modern pro's lips to mush ... makes us wonder how really accomplished we are nowadays, huh?
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Thomas. |
2006-09-09 10:31 |
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cjwright |
2006-09-09 11:35 |
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Dutchy |
2006-09-09 13:09 |
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oboeblank |
2006-09-09 15:46 |
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Re: History of the oboe reed? new |
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vboboe |
2006-09-10 03:17 |
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2006-09-10 07:09 |
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Thomas. |
2006-09-10 11:00 |
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vboboe |
2006-09-10 09:33 |
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2006-09-10 16:17 |
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