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Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-12-22 16:02
If you think at the time the concerto was written in the very late 1700s, the oboes back then had reeds that were reliant far more on breath and lip pressure than the instruments we have now which have 8ve keys to do the work for us and we use much harder reeds by comparison as we don't have to lip things up the 8ve anymore.
The reeds on Baroque and Classical era oboes are very sensitive and playing repeated low notes is much easier on them with that set-up. So we're fundamentally flawed in sacrificing the flexibility of the reed due to the advance of mechanical developments where the instrument is doing the hard work.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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JRC |
2012-12-21 18:47 |
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JRC |
2012-12-21 18:50 |
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Oboehotty |
2012-12-22 15:45 |
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Chris P |
2012-12-21 19:35 |
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mjfoboe |
2012-12-21 21:28 |
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Wes |
2012-12-21 22:05 |
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JRC |
2012-12-22 11:47 |
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Re: Reed for good low C at pp new |
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Chris P |
2012-12-22 16:02 |
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JRC |
2012-12-22 22:00 |
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ohsuzan |
2012-12-23 02:05 |
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jhoyla |
2012-12-23 09:54 |
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