Author: OboePrince
Date: 2015-01-28 08:36
Okay so I am actually a triple (Oboe, Flute, and Clarinet with proficiency) and oboe hasn't always been my principal horn along with all the corresponding color instruments (YES, ALL OF THEM), I basically played it to get scholarships and then ended up having a better chance in the professional world than on the flute, one because of an injury and two because... good flautists are common. Where I came from I actually wasn't the best oboist (out high school has 2 all state oboes, in a 38 piece band... it's usually hard enough to get one oboe) in the school even, and I always made a better chair and took my flute to all-state. In college, I discovered the world would be so much less competitive for me as a performer. In high school I also was one of the gifted people in the band so I would start a concert on Bass clarinet, Come up, Play Bb for a while, switch to flute and picc, go over to the oboe, and then end up back on my flute or picc. So it used to tear my Embouchure UP.
However, do any of you other doublers/triplers/etc feel like...
I could DROP my Buffet clarinet on the ground, pick it up, and it would still play.
I could throw my Pearl Flute against a wall, pick it up, and it would still play, and may not even have a dent.
I could drop my Yamaha Piccolo (because I HAVE) off a drill tower and that thing won't even pop a spring, it's like, "I was made for this ****"
Yet, while CLEANING (not abusing, not banging, not beating up, CLEANING) my instrument I somehow released tension on the spring to the side octave key. Okay, so what is gonna come out when that key is leaking? Nothing but a few high notes. So I finally get to a tech, and he moves the screw like... meh... 1/8 of an inch... I play the whole chromatic scale and my Rigoutat is back in business.
One screw was 1/8 inch out of place and the horn wouldn't PLAY. The flute would still be playing if the screw fell OUT.
Is it just me, or do all you doublers think this is the most ridiculously fickle horn in the world?
Rodney
American Oboist. I currently play on a Rigoutat Riec. She is beautiful.
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