Author: Dutchy
Date: 2008-07-04 02:40
Jeepers, Vboboe, I may not have had any actual experience playing in a band, but I listen to them, and I would have said that in any pissing contest between six saxes on one side, and one sax, an oboe, and a flute on the other side, the high winds are doomed to lose from the start. So why make yourself crazy trying to manufacture "rowdy" reeds that can stand up to six saxes? I don't think it's physically possible, myself.
Although "get a plastic reed" was the first thing that popped into my mind, too. Seriously. If all you want is "loud", plastic will definitely do it.
And I've run across some reeds, notably Singing Dog and Evans, that are "brighter" than others, so they might do.
But really, listen to your mother and just be yourself. Nobody can hear the single oboe in a woodwind section anyway. I just spent two years listening to my daughter's high school band which contained one oboist, and I could *never* hear her, and there were only six clarinets, five flutes, and a single alto sax. Oboes just ain't very rowdy to begin with.
Unless ya wanna bring a shawm to practice. Now, that's something I could get behind. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
ETA: Your director has a good handle on the situation. The oboe and flute aren't capable of playing any louder, so it's up to the saxes to play softer. The alto and tenor sax, especially, in my experience of listening to them, are capable of drowning out anything up to and including a car horn. Really, I wouldn't expect an oboe to stand up even to a single alto sax, let alone a whole sax section.
Post Edited (2008-07-04 02:44)
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