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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-04-03 04:32
If you love the instrument you play on, tell us why. I would love to hear the impressions people have of their particular instruments. Why do you play it? Why do you love it? Responses anticipated! Just click reply!
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Author: Torus Tubarius
Date: 2002-04-03 04:47
I'll get us started. I've been in music my whole life, and in that time I've been many things... a pianist, a saxophonist, a tubist, a bassoonist... but as if it weren't already apparent from all my previous posts, I'm an oboist at heart. And as if this also weren't apparent, I love the oboe.
The oboe sort of has a bad rap because it's so easy to make it sound bad. But when played correctly, it is in my opinion absolutely the most poignant, passionate, and expressive of the woodwinds. It's tone has a woody, pastoral quality, while at the same time it is colored by an underlying plaintiveness and melancholy. It's like when you hear the tones from oboe, you can feel each harmonic intertwining in a way that tugs at you, like it's pleading with the soul to get its message across. It can also be emotive on so many levels. It can wrench your heart out with longing almost desperate phrases, yet can also be whimsical and light-hearted.
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Author: becca
Date: 2002-04-03 14:27
i am agreein with u in everything you say bout my instrument, and no other musicians have any idea how hard the instrument is unless they play it!
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Author: Accordionmaid
Date: 2002-04-04 01:31
I'm still a beginner, but, I've always loved the warm, "buttery" sound of the oboe, and that's one reason I chose to learn. It's peaceful, hypnotic, when played well.
I am also intrigued by how it is a double reed instrument and how that reed is placed. The oboe is a strange bird, for sure!
There's an interesting balance of mindfulness and mechanics, too. It's a fairly complex arrangement of metal and wood and physical requirements, as well as requiring one to THINK the tone, predestinate it.
You can press the accordion or piano keys in your sleep and get pretty good tones, but, you've got to be at a certain point of consciousness to get much out of the oboe.
That said, now I'll post the question for which I came to the forum tonight....
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Author: JenJen
Date: 2002-04-07 18:03
I've been in music my whole life. I've done voice, piano and flute for ten years, guitar for one year, and oboe for 6 months. Funny thing is, I love the flute in that I know it inside and out, but I have always wanted to be an oboe player. I took up oboe in my college ensemble late last year, and I am doing Quiet City this April in our concert. I love it, and I still love flute just the same. The tough thing is juggling the two and piano which I am still active in. I just love being a musician because it is such an awesome gift that God can give, so to make a long story short, I love them all.
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Author: barisaxboy
Date: 2002-04-08 00:47
i love the baritone sax! i have loved that instrument ever since i first saw it last november. i remember walking in for jazz band one day (i play alto sax for jazz band) and seeing this HUGE saxophone sitting there. i instantly loved its wierd shape and big size, and when i heard it, i was in love. i always sat by it in jazz band, but just sitting by the instrument was not enough. i wanted to PLAY it. so, in mid-january, i asked my director if it would be possible to play baritone sax for concert band. he said yes, and that all he had to do was order a mouthpeice. that took FOREVER to come in, but i was in by the end of february. i still remember the first day i played the bari sax!!! it was in band 7th hour. i was very excited!!! i had trouble with the low notes at first, but now i am used to it. i was able to take the bari sax to contest on march 17th. it was cool! the bari sax has renewed my interest in music!!! i was bored with alto sax, and the bari sax has given me a new challenge!!
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Author: Big B.
Date: 2002-04-17 19:48
The bari sax is awesome! I like how big it is and what sound it makes. I used to play tenor, but when I found out about the bari I started playing it. I think I'm going to stick with it a while.
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Author: Joyce
Date: 2002-07-26 18:22
As a oboe player beginner, I was totally immensed in the magical sound flowing from the oboe. Though I've heard various kinds of solos in all kinds of music, yet I still find dat only oboe could give such a unique, sombre plaintive sound, easily recognised in recordings even when the rest of the orchestra was playing... really great instrument...I'll never regret picking up oboe in my life.!!
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Author: bari girl
Date: 2002-10-24 22:32
i love playing my bari sax. i even named it Bari. i usually play flute in concert band but i got so bored with it i mean i am still playing it but i am playing bari in jazz band. one day i was in my lesson my director was complaining that he had no one to play bari in jazz band and i told him i would and nobody thought i could do it but i am not. i have my first jazz band practice this monday i am so excited.
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