 The Fingering Forum
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Author: Aaron
Date: 2001-11-04 06:33
Hello. I've discovered some cool oboe fingerings that aren't on this site. Occasionally I will cheat and use them if I'm getting tired. These are variations on the harmonic fingerings. They are all very stable, except the Bb which is easy to blow sharp. Additionally, I find that the timbre of these notes sounds more like the natural tone than the timbre generated when you play real harmomic Bb, B and C's.
Bb (II)12- 123
B (II)12- 12-
C (II)12- 1--
Give it a whirl. Happy playing.
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Author: Debbie
Date: 2001-11-11 14:28
By "II" do you mean the 2nd octave key? I don't really understand the difference between harmonic and natural, but isn't the fingering you are giving for the high C the same as a normal high B-flat? Could you explain a little further?
Thank you!
Debbie
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Author: Aaron
Date: 2001-11-11 23:17
Oops yes in fact I did type the wrong didn't I?
I meant to say (II)1-- 12- not (II) 12- 1--
Sorry bout that. Yes by (II) I do mean the second octave key, I just couldn't think of a better way to write it. Ooo ooo also, this weekend I went and saw a concert given by the Moscow State Symphony (they're on tour in America right now) and they were playing Tchaikovsky's 6th right? And on the Allegro con grazia (download this if you've never heard it it's a lovely movement) I was watching the oboist very intently to see how he would handle the last part of the second phrase where it jumps up to a high E from a high C#. Lo and behold, he fingers the high E with 12- --- with some combination of other keys I could'nt quite see from my seat! I thought that was very neat.
Doing it 12- --- is simply the continuation of the harmonic which allows you to play C# roughly as 123 1-- and D as 123 ---. Play 123(G#) --- and you get Eb, and play 12- --- and you get E. I tried it last night on the crappiest plastic oboe I could find, and it worked! Very neat stuff.
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Author: Aaron
Date: 2001-11-14 19:23
Hey I was going through the Barret method and looking at his fingering charts. It turns out that those fingerings I found for these notes are in there! That book was written sometime in the middle to late 19th century when the oboe mechanism was still considerably differnt than it is today. I guess the old fingerings still work.
I'm going to look through it some more and try out the fingerings to see what I can come up with.
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