Author: jhoyla
Date: 2007-09-19 06:02
Bobo, I have a regular model (not AK, not Royale) Loree, just over a year old. The 1st. octave F is truly indistinguishable, the lower F is a tiny bit different - not a bad or out-of-tune note, but a slightly different timbre to the tone.
On my old Marigaux Strasser (one of the fully-featured early models, ca. 1976) the forked F also speaks beautifully, so I suppose I have been spoiled throughout my oboe-playing career. This supposedly-student model has a LH F also, that I only ever used for really awkward E-F-D passages and such.
We sometimes forget how attuned we become - in our fingers, our ears - to the way a particular note sounds. Other people just don't hear the difference, honestly. Do a blind trial with a couple of friends for fun, if you wish!
On you-tube somewhere you can find Heinz Holliger playing the Mozart Oboe concerto, 1st movt. Watch how he fingers that top D in the second or third bar - he uses the trill key! And it sounds just fine. I remember working that to death, getting my line to flow over the altissimo break without faltering. It never occurred to me (or my teacher at the time) to use the trill key.
When we are playing with ease and confidence we sound better, even if we are not using our "perfect" fingering for a particular note. If we are struggling with a complex fingering transition we tend to focus on our technique and pay less attention to the music. Music comes first, always.
J.
Post Edited (2007-09-19 14:48)
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