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Re: Some newbie questions

Author: Astrobleme
Date: 2006-10-02 16:08

Thanks for the welcome, vboboe. This seems like a nice place for youngsters of all ages.

My visual impression that the adjustment screws were at the bottom turned out to be incorrect, and I felt brave yesterday and fiddled around a little with them, so now those trills seem to be working as well. If I managed to mess up something else along the way – well, that'll be a learning experience too. :-) But those screws seem fairly isolated with no hidden traps ...

As for music, I got a bundle of different (introductory) books, and first I started on a few of them without really having any plan. But after a while I decided I'd better spend some time just focusing on being able to produce reasonably decent tones in tune without pretending what I'm doing has anything to do with music, and that's where I still am. But I think it's time to get back to either the Gekeler or the Edlefsen/Weber book (Oboe Student) and also work with the 80 graded studies books for a while. Any suggestions?

The main reason I took up the oboe is that I am (or was) a hobby composer and want to have at least a little first-hand experience with the instruments. But I haven't even attempted writing anything for quite some time because the instruments are fascinating enough in themselves. So I guess I'm mainly a collector of cheap second-hand instruments. :-) But since the oboe is one of my favorites, the wish to learn how to play it has grown gradually stronger.

So we'll see what happens. I hope I'll manage to stick to it.

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