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Re: Circular Breathing

Author: oboeblank
Date: 2005-06-01 04:19

The double C# is beside the left F key. It looks like one enormous left F but is actually two keys-left F and alternate C#. Most companies do not even offer its addition any longer, and if they do, most European players go for that key addition. Its only value I can even think of is to eliminate sliding from low C to C#, or for a double trill-as you sometimes find in some new music-from C to C#. For the one time that you would play a piece with a double trill, it is not worth the money to add one.
I am reminded of a story of a principal player in a major orchestra who went to Paul Laubin and asked him to add a third octave key; Laubin conceded to this player, after much opposition, went ahead, and added the third octave key. When the player picked up the oboe and started the opening of Daphnis and Chloe suite two on a high F# pianississississimo, he turned to Laubin and said; "You should make the third octave standard on your oboes", Paul Laubin turned to him and said "Ralph Gomberg never needed a third octave to play that solo!" That put him in his place. The moral: Do not look to fancy little gadgets to make things easier, work.

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