Author: OboeAtHeart
Date: 2003-12-25 17:09
Hey everyone.
I'm an oboe player in the lower band, I just started playing about four months ago, and I'm in my freshman year of highschool. I alternate between the oboe for lower band, clarinet for upper band, and bari-sax for Jazz band just about every day, so I'm used to the embochure changes and what not by now.
However, I'm having a ghastly time getting response from the lower notes. They tend to 'leap' octaves, and will not stay the same note, sometimes playing two at once. Just about everything above the E on both registers is just fine. I'm also having difficulty staying in tune between the first clarinet and the piccollo. Is that just the nature of the instrument to be completely disagreeable for the first year or so?
I love playing the instrument, but I'm playing on a Yamaha wooden, and it's alright, but the response is a little touch-and-go somedays. Is that the reed, horn or me? (Probably me.)
I've been teaching myself, my parents do not have enough money for both oboe and clarinet lessons, and my band director begrudgingly let me play the instrument because no one else wanted to play oboe in the lower band..
It also turns out I might be playing English horn, if nescis...dangit. If needed.
I'm in desperate need of some help, or something, so any response would be wonderful!
Thank you, and Merry Christmas!
Jen, from the clarinet BB.
*~"The clarinet, though appropriate to the expression of the most poetic ideas and sentiments, is really an epic instrument- the voice of heroic love."~*
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