Author: jeremyreeds
Date: 2012-03-11 15:04
Hello everyone, I am about to give my opinion on this subject, while running the risk of being virtually lynched. I am only going to be writing (talking) off the top of my mind, without any proof. I do not think that Maestro Tabuteau was the founder of any so-called American School of oboe playing; as a matter of fact, I think that he and his school are as American as the statue of Liberty, i.e., French!!! I am sure, from what I have read about Maestro Tabuteau, that he was a great teacher, who taught a great number of students of whom many became very successful and taught students who also became successful, and so on; a very prolific teacher of the French school. Why of the French school? Because I find it very difficult to believe that having been born in France, having studied in France, with French teachers, and having kept all the contact he kept during his stay in the United States with France as he did, and dying after retirement in France, could have taught anything different than what he learnt, in France.
What I think was really happening with Maestro Tabuteau, and all the other European/American, oboe players of the time, in the symphony orchestras of the United States, was the difficulty of keeping in tune at an A 440 hz. I beleive that the only other country playing at that tuning was England and its colonies (of the time, not to get into a political argument here), which also had been producing its own oboes, but thumb plate system (also called by some English system but which, as the present case, happens to be French).
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