Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-03-20 12:41
The Jay Light book is the reason I started AND quit the American scrape! I did the whole reed diary with plenty of accurate measurements and descriptions on cane quality and behavior; I had plenty of other oboists (long-time graduates and well seasoned pros) helping me out with this technique and it just would not work.
The important lesson here is that learning from a book is very risky. My reeds started to be great and truly renowned for their quality (among teachers and university mates) when I just did what my Conservatoire teacher told me. Others would scoff me because it's not what Ted Baskin or so-and-so does, but while my critics were struggling with dynamics and the inability to tongue notes below F, I was easily learning to compensate for the caprices of my Lorée!
It's always best to have a teacher to help you, even if you end up abandoning the style for another. Otherwise, you can end-up going completely the wrong way, never understand why things are not working and just mess yourself up for a long time to come.
To the dismay of others here, I will repeat it: playing the oboe and making oboe reeds is easy! .... much harder than the trumpet or saxophone, but nowhere near the nightmare I have lived, witnessed and read!
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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