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Author: Jenna
Date: 2003-11-16 02:49
What do you guys think is harder? Clarinet or oboe?
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Author: Theboy_2
Date: 2003-11-16 04:34
being a clarinetist and listened to a few oboes play, i'd say oboe. the greatest difficulty about beginning clarinetists is their embourchure, they usually sound flat. although i've heard an oboe so flat, his notes would come out a semi-tone flat. i've never tried oboe, but it's on my list of instruments to try.
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Author: sömeone
Date: 2003-11-16 05:04
I now spend more time on the oboe than the clarinet as that is what i intend to play and study more seriuously in the near future. The switching period was not a nice experience and undoubtfully i would say oboe is SO MUCH MORE harder to play and start with. With the correct guidance on embouchure you can start clarinet with not much of a BIG problem but on oboe it is very subjective and virtually everything becomes a mess especially when you are smeone trying to switch from another instrument to the oboe. Double reed instruments are very sensitive and intonation is far more helpless than it is on clarinet.
High pressure is the key on oboe and on clarinet it depends.
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2003-11-17 06:52
The oboe is much harder to start off. The clarinet is generally considered to be one of the easiest instruments to start to play.
But as you progress, you will find that because the clarinet is easy, composers demand much more from it - a good clarinet players has to be able to play much more complex pieces than a good oboe player, to compensate for the fact that the oboe player has to work much harder on embouchure and tone. So at the end of the day, a professional career in either instrument will require about the same amount of work.
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Author: musichick
Date: 2003-11-18 01:15
I personally found oboe a heck of a lot harder to learn then clarinet, however, I don't know about the perfecting part of it. But even harder then oboe was bassoon- I guess its the doublereed thing that is hard.
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Author: Dirk
Date: 2003-12-18 12:00
I already tried to get tones out of most wind instruments: Clarinets (high Eb to Contra-Alto), Saxophones (Sopranino to Contrabass), Flute (Piccolo to Alto), Trumpet, Trombone.
The main thing seems to be that the high playing instruments need less air but much more pressure though the low playing ones need almost no pressure at all (try a contrabass saxophone!) but a lot of air.
Besides on high playing instruments correct intonations seems to be more difficult.
Fingering on Sax, Oboe and Clarinet is of comparable difficulty and easiest on the instrument you started with;-) Lots of fingerings are (almost) the same on most woodwinds (especially the c-major scale) but the small differences are confusing if you switch. Think of the low c and d# fingering on saxophone/clarinet/flute compared to oboe. Or the f / f# on certain wooodwinds: 1234-- is sometimes f, sometimes f#. If its f most probably 123-5- will be f#, if its f# most probably 12345-6 will be f.
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