Author: oboi
Date: 2014-01-18 23:01
Hello!
You sort of sound like me. I started the oboe at age 25, self-teaching myself for about a year. Joined an entry-level orchestra in half a year after starting. Started taking lessons after a few months of that (which I was told I was already intermediate). Probably 3 years into playing, I was told I could probably get into a music school. Now, after 5-ish years, I'm "pre-professional" level and if I work at it this year really hard I can probably consider myself a semi-pro. I also still have aspirations to become a pro, which I think I could probably do, if I really wanted to.
I spend lots of time on the oboe, and I'm a pretty quick musical learner, and can pick up any wind instrument and learn it in a short amount of time. I also have been playing piano most of my life, so I already had a good background before taking up the oboe. I feel that I've started too late, but I'm realizing more and more that I could do it if I wanted to..... it's moreso the time of life issues (I'm not a kid who can drop my life and go to a conservatory... well, I could, but I'm not), and not technical because of age. I've even picked up a few instruments after the oboe and have no qualms about getting very good at them if I wanted to.
So I guess it depends on your dedication and also your aptitude for this sort of stuff. But it's certainly not impossible.
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