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 Re: Oboe Difficult to play???
Author: mschmidt 
Date:   2006-06-04 19:40

I was very fortunate in that the orchestra director in my junior high school was an oboist, so I had very good training, and personally made reeds, from the start.

I recently visited my parents and found my old clarinet. It had a huge crack in the upper joint out of which I could feel air rushing when I tested the joint. I soaked up a THIRTY year old manufactured reed and tried playing the thing. I hadn't played clarinet more than a half hour in the last 30 years. It sounded great. I couldn't have told you what notes I was playing, but it sounded like a clarinet.

I took out my oboe, soaked up one of my recent reeds. I've been practicing oboe daily for about a year. I tried to make my best oboe sound. It sounded ok.

Yes, oboe is difficult to play.

Mike

Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore



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