Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-07-21 04:43
zhangray4 wrote:
> It
> wasn't until less than 2 years ago when I realized I was doing
> something that no one (or very few people) still does,
Not really true. They just don't play double lip in your circle of band mates. There are lots of us double-lippers in the wider world of clarinet.
> my teacher has taught both of them
> before and said it was a waste of time teaching them because
> they weren't that good to begin with and didn't practice.
Not a really cool thing for a teacher to be doing - bad-mouthing students to other students (whatever he thinks of them).
> Given
> that my teacher was an oboe player and said my double lip was
> basically his oboe embouchure but on the clarinet, do you guys
> think learning the oboe would be not as difficult as most say,
> for me?
I think your teacher would be a pretty reliable judge of this. It seems to me there are plenty of woodwind doublers who play, among other things, both clarinet and oboe, so they aren't inherently in conflict. Your teacher plays both, so he should be a good resource for help about this. There are differences in approach between between single and double reeds other than just embouchure, but you can learn anything if you want to and you practice.
> If so, I plan to practice in my free time while still
> practicing clarinet and surprise them in chair auditions 
Do you mean you hope to beat both of them on oboe? If so, I'm not sold on your reason for wanting to do this, (humiliating friends isn't usually a good way to keep them friends) but as long as you keep your clarinet playing strong, it's not a bad idea at all to build an oboe technique. What isn't good is to flit from one instrument to another and never become really strong on any of them, which doesn't seem to be your plan.
Karl
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