Author: justme
Date: 2010-09-24 11:15
Thanks for your reply and posting the video links, Howard.
I watched all of them.
I still preferred Hollinger's tone to the others , followed by Han de Vries.
I understand that the world has become smaller and things are different than they were just a short time past. I can understand the styles being mixed with the different players whom have left their countries and moved to others, which in turn influence others as well. With all of the media sources that we have available, the world is a much smaller place. Still, I would think that some general influence would persist in certain areas?
I know that wherever and whomever that you learn a muscial instrument from will usually influence ( dare we say prejudice? ) your concept of what tone and style "should sound like."
I'm an American and I've heard others "bash" other oboist players tones and styles of playing not a few times on various internet boards, with the players in question recognized in other countries as some of the best. No need to start a flame war here, I'm just mentioning it as there seems that people are very heavily influenced by whomever taught them as to what an oboe should sound like, etc.
When I listened to those last two videos by Hollinger that you posted, I could still hear the nasal tone in them ( the wah sound that I call it,) but to much less a degree than the ones that I posted.
For some reason I like that sound, but I also like the dark sound that Yeon Hee Kwak uses.
I guess that means as an American I'm an outsider, LOL.
Which also begs the question....
Long scrape or short scrape reeds, Hollinger and Yeon Hee Kwak must be using two different scrapes?
I would also like to thank all of you for educating me on some of these things.
I'm still not sure what to call the tone that I prefer other than when Hollinger plays with a more nasal tone... ( but I also like the dark tone as well!)
Justme
"A critic is like a eunuch: he knows exactly how it ought to be done."
CLARINET, n.
An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments that are worse than a clarinet -- two clarinets
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