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Re: Intonation -- What Constitues Being In Tune?

Author: ptarmiganfeather
Date: 2015-02-06 12:49

I play with my tuner on and within sight. Definitely not a professional here but a dedicated hobbyist.

I play with a 60 piece concert band, a completely different beast. In all seriousness, the few times playing with strings I had to dial back quite a bit on the volume, even though I might not have been playing loud per se, but I could actually hear myself. I am not kidding.

I hope this makes sense to other concert band oboists.

I have been guilty of being extremely out of tune. Mostly just try to blend in, especially when I can hear myself over the general din. I am speaking of this din out of love because it hides a lot of ills on my part.

Most of the time it's just play along as I know my reed is vibrating but I can only hear percussion and brass. It's lovely though when that huge sound can come down so I can play a little solo here and there. My pet peeve is playing "solos" with brass. Like who can hear the oboe over the trumpet?

I look at the tuner most of the time then immediately go into denial as to how sharp/flat the noise coming out of the end of my oboe is making. Most of the time I just try to play along.

During practice sessions the tuner stays on and I pay close attention to it.

Not sure how much that adds to the conversation.

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