Author: kroboe
Date: 2005-09-30 11:24
I have often wondered what makes people take up the oboe when they could have chosen a simpler life playing a different instrument. The oboe is most often an instrument of choice, not of chance. So, what's driving us? Why should anyone want to play an instrument that is so uncooperative, so treacherous, so translucent to your slightest fault, and so physically demanding that very few manage to keep it up in their older days? Is it true love, or is it some sort of masochism? Or is it just vanity and the wish to stand out and be admired?
Such thoughts inevitably crop up from time to time as you start realising that you have spent most of your life fighting an instrument that is finally and inevitably someday going to win anyway.
Not like a piano or an old cello who will invite you to hum a tune in the evening, whatever your situation. No, the oboe will one day stand triumphantly on the mantlepiece telling you that I won, and you can no longer play me! And if you try I will probably kill you! And you will sit there like an ageing athlete, reminicing your days of glory, perhaps wondering if it was worth all the hardships and the anxiety and the millions of butterflies you have housed in you stomac over the years, and maybe thinking that if you had chosen a different instrument like a tutti-fiddle og something, what a relaxing life you might have had, and that you might have kept your hobby 25 years longer, or till they came to get you.
So, lets have your thoughts on this. Any regrets anyone? Or is the oboe the one and only love of your life?
kroboe
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