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Re: The real practical range (compass) of the Oboe

Author: Barry Vincent
Date: 2018-03-12 03:58

Hi EaubeanHorn. It's interesting that you say that a teacher once said the "positioning one's throat as if you were singing' sounds like good advice. Just speaking for myself I find that it's impossible to produce a good sound on the Oboe without doing that. As Anthony Baines commented in his book 'Woodwind Instruments and Their History', "The Oboe is the one woodwind instrument that's virtually impossible to sound well without felt expression' and by that I can safely assume he mean't 'singing' into it as it were. That's always been my own approach to Oboe playing and it gives wonderful results.
Still , there's that high G. I've had a good quality Howarth Oboe (S55c) dual system and have always used good quality reeds , even the ones I make myself and that G is still 'tight' I've had to let go of the S55c as, being heavily mechanised, it was getting too heavy for me. I now use a Howarth S2 thumb plate Oboe which is now 63 years old and still plays nicely.
If these extreme high notes 'just came out' as you say, it begs the question, why the desperate need for a 3rd octave key ?

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