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Re: Good Oboe for Single Reed Doubler

Author: Loliver
Date: 2013-03-04 18:56

You probably do need a teacher- I'm speaking from experience!

I took up oboe in my last year of School ( I was 18, now 21) after having got grade 8 clarinet. I started on a Buffet student oboe (Artiste or something), then sold it for £100 more than I paid for it and moved onto a 1995 Howarth S2 for £700 (bargain I feel...had 3 octaves, all trills but thumbplate only) then a new Howarth S45c dual. All I knew when I started was that Thumbplate was what the vast majority used in UK, and that was it.

I thought I was doing fine after a couple of months (all notes were fine from low Bb to roughly high D#) but then I realised the position I held it in was awful...as in rather than holding it at ~45 degree angle, was at like 0 degree angle, and was basically looking really weird whilst I played it...

It was really hard to break those habits on my own, but I did by asking the Oboist next to me to tell me when I was holding it wrong (she actually took that to mean 'pinch me on the leg during Beethoven's 8th symphony'), but it took AGES to stop doing it!

Also a teacher can possibly make you reeds, which would be a lot easier than buying unadjusted ones from a shop/internet.

You will get to a good standard eventually...but you will get there much faster, I reckon, with a teacher.

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