 The Oboe BBoard
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Author: Bucky Badger
Date: 2003-04-30 02:13
Actually there is a guy in my town who has a loree oboe with saxophone fingerings. He will not sell the instrument however.
You can buy a basic oboe reed making kit of a knife, plastic round block to cut the tip of the cane straight, and a handtool to hold the staple (cork and metal tube the cane is attached to). You can buy folded cane. Sprinkle has an oboe book found in most music stores about making reeds. The folded cane is about $1 USA and you use the staples over and over. You also need nylon thread to wind around the cane.
Problem with making your own reeds is you have to spend a lot of time at it to get it right----take too much off the cane and you have to start over. If you want to go cheap and easy you can get fibercane reed (plastic type). It lasts a long time and keeps you playing. You have to get the reed strength right. Only down sides of the reed is it doesn't quite sound like the real wood ones, and eventually the plastic will suddenly turn non-responsive; so you best have a back up ready.
I started on oboe in the orchestra in high school and college, sax instruments also in high school/college. Played oboe in grad school. I also play some brass instruments currently---2nd french horn in the city band, Bari sax and valve trombone in a 1940s dance band.
With oboe you have the problem of playing the instrument but having air left over you have to purge or pass out. With french horn and sax you never have enough it seems.
jim buchholz
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2003-03-31 11:42 |
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