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Re: Why don't boys take up the oboe?

Author: kroboe
Date: 2005-08-18 12:53

I think what we are observing is a trend that goes for all instruments exept perhaps for those related to pop-music. Not so many years ago girls were expected to play the piano, and little else. The rest of the musical scene was restricted to men only, all the way from scool-bands to the great symphony orchestras of the world. Today is an entirely different story. There has been a revolution that you have to be somewhat of age to fully comprehend. The last couple of decades girls have been sworming the place so to speak. The sad consequense of this seems to be that the boys are pulling out. A parallel to this is f.e. horse-riding, which today is an all-girl thing. There is maybe a spycological explanation to this which I shall not go into. But the result is that playing an instrument seems to be more and more a girl-thing. In my orchestra the proportion of girls have changed over the past 15 years or so from 20% to 80%. If this continues symphony orchestras of the future will be all female. Now, as for the oboe, the instrument may very well appeal more to girls than boys despite the physical effort it demands, but this is only an additional effect to the general trend in my opinion.
kroboe

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