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Re: Clarinet to oboe embouchure

Author: Joseph Brenner, Jr.
Date: 2017-02-19 07:33

In a double lip embouchure, the top lip conforms to the bottom lip's configuration when you play the clarinet or saxophone; with oboe both lips partially curl over the reed. The oboe, like the English horn and oboe d'amore, is a double reed instrument--a curved reed opposite another curved reed bound together at the end. Aside from its sound, the other attributes are its lightness compared to the clarinet and its being in the key of c. Unlike the clarinet, its register key jumps the player up one octave. With the clarinet, you must take in new air more frequently than with the oboe. With the oboe, you need to dissipate air, so you'll have to adjust your breathing with the oboe. I'd say that you should be able to make a decent sound in short order, but mastery of the oboe (like mastery of the clarinet) takes a long time. Most of the keys are plateau, not open hole, so you'll save a little time adjusting. Best wishes--and no you need not worry at all that playing the oboe will compromise your competence on the clarinet. Does anybody worry that learning a second language requires you to give up the language you've spoken since birth?

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