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Re: Looking for a good oboe

Author: wrowand
Date: 2006-07-07 13:54

vboboe wrote:
"Hm, this oboe illustration doesn't have additional low B-flat vent, are some brands better tuned at low B-flat than others?"

Yes, some have better-in-tune low Bb's but the low Bb resonance vent isn't just about pitch.

vboboe wrote:
"which this picture unfortunately doesn't show -- can't see my pinky leveraging Right C# and banana key, surely it's easier to do Basic C & C#?"

The auxilliary low C is for the third finger of the right hand, not the pinky. You hold the aux low-C closed with the third finger and trill the C# with your pinky.

vboboe wrote:
"Without the Left C#, could see banana key mildly useful as rapid D-C-D turn-around, or C-F interval in keys 3+ flats when using Left F's and Left E-flats, and as a C grace note or turn key maybe, or ?"

That's exactly where you *wouldn't* use the banana key.
For D-C-D you should just use the regular low C key.
In the case where C is a grace note, the banana key is particularly unsuitable since you have to slide off of it to go from low C to D.
In 30 years of playing the oboe, I'm not certain that I've ever used the banana key. I think I remember a picture of Ray Still on an album cover where the banana key had been removed from his oboe -- the posts were there but the key had been removed.
I also saw a Josef English horn at the 2005 IDRS that eliminated the aux low C as one of many modifications to reduce the weight of the instrument -- making it the lightest weight professional e-horn I've ever played.

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