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Re: Advice for an adult beginner

Author: Wes
Date: 2013-05-23 05:23

Good luck on learning the oboe! However, even if you find the best teacher/player in the area, don't expect them to tell you everything you need to know. You must search and learn for yourself as well. Pay attention to other fine oboe players and they may inadvertently drop a great hint of great value about reed making.

Gillet, the famous French teacher, would turn away when he adjusted student reeds as he was perhaps concerned that they might learn too much and eventually challenge him.

I studied four years with a wonderful and valuable teacher, now passed on, but he did not seriously try to teach me how to make reeds. He made and sold about ten reeds a week to students and in one corner of his brain he could not deal with teaching much about reed making, for some reason. He had originally learned the W scrape from his teacher but switched to the American long scrape, but went back to the W scrape in his final years.

Get the J. Light book on reed making as it still seems to be as good or better than any other on the subject.

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