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 Re: Do you roll your thumb onto the octave key, or do you pick it up?
Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date:   2005-07-19 15:07

voboe -

On clarinet, you have to have your thumb on its ring, and you pinch or nudge upward for the register key. There's no hole to cover on the oboe, so you can choose where to keep your left thumb. As Dutchy says, it's useful to keep it on the wood for supporting or balancing the instrument, but it's perfectly possible to keep it hovering over the key, to make movements more economical.

By the time Sprenkle got to Eastman, all oboes had semiautomatic octave keys, but he taught the "rotation" technique anyway, writing that it prevented prblems when the mechanism got out of adjustment. See his book "The Art of Oboe Playing," which is full of good advice.

For the right little fingers, the time-honored technique is to rub yyour finger on the side of your nose, which provides just enough grease to slide easily from key to key.

Why can't oboes have duplicate little finger keys, like clarinets?

Ken Shaw
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Dutchy 2005-07-14 00:44 
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vboboe 2005-07-14 06:56 
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Dutchy 2005-07-14 12:28 
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vboboe 2005-07-14 19:03 
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Dutchy 2005-07-15 01:32 
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vboboe 2005-07-15 15:25 
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Ken Shaw 2005-07-15 14:18 
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vboboe 2005-07-15 14:54 
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vboboe 2005-07-17 18:52 
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Dutchy 2005-07-17 21:32 
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vboboe 2005-07-18 03:50 
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Dutchy 2005-07-19 03:11 
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vboboe 2005-07-19 05:07 
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Ken Shaw 2005-07-19 15:07 
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vboboe 2005-07-19 17:13 
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wrowand 2005-07-19 18:29 
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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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