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 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?
Author: Dutchy 
Date:   2005-07-14 12:28

Yes, it does. All input is helpful at this stage. :D So I should just "scratch" the advice to rollover the thumb, yes?

I did figure out last night that I *could* get my thumb to rollover onto the octave key--but it meant that my left ring finger was all the time sticking out at an odd, and very uncomfortable and cramp-inducing, straight angle, and the other three fingers were just not "arched comfortably over the keypads" as my Essential Elements book advises. Being able to roll the thumb onto the octave key meant that my other fingers were fairly straight, not arched, and were not hitting the oboe at the advised angle. Maybe Ms. Rothwell just had uniquely flexible fingers, that she could manage to rollover her thumb onto a pointy Conservatory octave key without munging the rest of her fingering?

However, what you're saying is that you can't play your oboe unless you have some kind of homemade prothesis taped onto it? My Essential Elements book, in its helpful little diagram on "how to hold your oboe", strangely doesn't mention that one should have to be wearing a prosthesis in order to make the octave key work. :D So maybe we aren't *meant* to be rolling our thumb over onto the pointy Conservatory octave key? "If God had meant us to do that, He'd have given us six fingers..."?
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 Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Dutchy 2005-07-14 00:44 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-14 06:56 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Dutchy 2005-07-14 12:28 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-14 19:03 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Dutchy 2005-07-15 01:32 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-15 15:25 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Ken Shaw 2005-07-15 14:18 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-15 14:54 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-17 18:52 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Dutchy 2005-07-17 21:32 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-18 03:50 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Dutchy 2005-07-19 03:11 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-19 05:07 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Ken Shaw 2005-07-19 15:07 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
vboboe 2005-07-19 17:13 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
wrowand 2005-07-19 18:29 
 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?  new
Ken Shaw 2005-07-20 15:18 
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wrowand 2005-07-20 16:51 
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vboboe 2005-07-20 22:59 


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