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Re: What is the "dark" oboe sound?

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2010-09-10 21:06

We're doing our best to describe in words something for which there is no standard vocabulary!

When talking about light, be it sunshine or neons, bright/dark always mean the same thing --- it doesn't even matter what culture you hail from. But for tone colour, it's soooooo hard!

I was just listening to the Budapest Concert Orchestra and the principal oboist had a VERY dark and mellow sound.... perhaps you would call it milky. Then again, I could not find any information on who the oboist is or where s/he is from.

Heinz Holliger is probably the epitomy of bright sound and Cynthia (????) in recordings by Quartetto Gelato is probably the epitomy of dark sound.

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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