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Re: Left F necessity?

Author: sylvangale
Date: 2006-10-16 06:32

Forked F has been kind to me, never had intonation issues on a number of oboes. I even had an old oboe which has a more intune forked F, but the regular F fingering was out of tune.

As you progress through more complex literature you'll find that working in the left hand F will aid you considerably. Sometimes switching to the right hand F's are simply un-ergonimic and you will find yourself in a lot of pain vs using the left hand F where it would work best.

Go though your music and mark passages that may work out better with a left F and use it there. No need to use it for the sake of it. Just be sure that you use it so that you will be able to call upon it when you need it.

Give that D, E, F and D, F, E sequence a while... repeat them over and over with your normal method and work in the left hand F. Your hands will thank you. It may seem off at first, but all new fingerings are odd, as you make use of the fingering you'll forget all about the difficulty of using it.

... Is there any harm in closing off the F resonance key? I generally use forked F with an added left or right Eb than without as it is consistently stuffy. I find that F resonance a really problematic key on my Loree and would rather be without it myself.

Regards,
Stephen

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