Author: Alan Davis ★2017
Date: 2013-05-06 03:56
In college, I was interested in playing the oboe because I liked the sound and I liked that it was not a transposed instrument. However, I never had time to pursue it. Many years letter, my son took up oboe after playing baritone sax in school for about five years, so we bought him a nice one -- a used rosewood Loree. Jump forward another twelve years or so, and my son announced that he was thinking about selling the oboe to get money to buy another saxophone. I told him No, I'll buy it. So I bought it a second time (he gave me a good deal!)
So, I'm now 66, retired and trying to play an oboe. I've been practicing steadily for four months now and I'm taking lessons from the principal oboist at out local symphony, whom I've known for many years. I've been singing forever, so I read music and know pitch, and I took three years of piano lessons all too long ago, but this is a very different thing.
I haven't told many people about this, because I was not sure I was going to stay with it, but I can see real progress now and practicing has become part of my day. It may be a difficult instrument, but it is what it is. I've taken on the challenge. Don't know if I'll ever perform in public, but I'm going to get good enough to just enjoy playing.
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