Author: vboboe
Date: 2007-10-29 06:57
... oboe and Irish -- or broadened to other Celtic -- excellent modern day match, why not cultivate it?
think wood oboe definitely preferable to plastic for this genre
reeds for this genre can be more flexible overall, very responsive, fairly bright, and sweet -- easy to blow continuously
long U scrape double window reed, flexible with complex tonality
sound good and blow nicely, but you have to be able to work around the general instability of this kind of reed, bonus, this adds soul-satisfying wildness
embouchure has to be quite mobile rather than static in order to make the most of the various over-tones in the different registers
i have Celtic recorder book, good for starters, and Celtic fake book, good for keeping busy sight-reading and learning new melodies, and feel very comfortable in this genre myself
even if all the whistle type embellishments can't be done so easily on a modern oboe, just learning to define and grace the notes with the fingers, sustain and articulate on the air-stream rather than with the tongue are good starting points in adjusting classically trained technique for more authentic sounding Celtic genre
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