Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2004-06-06 22:16
Hi everyone --
I was just thinking about the fact that I have seen a couple people on this board call their oboes by a "pet" name (the one that comes to mind was someone whose oboe is called "Bobo").
So, that got me to wondering how many of us have named our oboes? And how many of us think of our oboes as being of a particular gender? I certainly have never named my clarinets, and I don't know of anyone else who has. And I don't have a feeling for whether any of them is more comfortable in a skirt or in pants.
But I named my oboe before I ever held it in my hands. You see, I bought it used from a private seller, and even though she shipped it 2nd day air, it spent four days on a FedEx plane travelling back and forth from Boise, Idaho to Memphis, Tennesse, to Salt Lake City, and back to Memphis, before heading to me in Central Ohio. I could see all this happening with the tracking number. So, I started calling him (yeah, it's a guy oboe) "Gulliver", for all his travels, and the name has stuck.
Anyone else do this?
And why do you suppose we give them names? Is it because they each have personalities of their own? Or because playing an oboe is so interactive (in a way that, in my experience, other instruments are not)? I mean, I feel a real affection for my oboe! ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
Susan
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