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Re: A Beautiful Old Oboe

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2017-01-03 21:53

Hi Chris. No , the S55c didn't have a third octave key. In all the time I've been playing Oboe, about 35 years, I've never understood the logic of not having something to rest your left thumb on in the conservatoire Oboe system. Even the Saxophone has a left hand thumb rest that allows the thumb to slide over onto the octave key as well as giving another touch point for the support of the instrument. I once had a loan of a Cor Anglais (conservatoire system) and straight away I fashioned a left hand thumb support out of hard rubber to enable it to fit onto the round body of the instrument and a flat surface for the thumb. It was one centimeter in diameter. Set it up close just below the octave key with blue tack and this resulted in the Cor Anglais being so much easier to play as I now had another touch point for support. To use the octave key I only had to roll my thumb over onto it just like a Saxophone. So logical. It was easy to remove before I returned the instrument to it's owner. No trace of the blue tack and no marks where my homemade thumb rest had been.

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