Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-04-17 16:26
<<And in fact, very positive things started happening for oboe as a byproduct of ehorn playing.>>
Care to expand upon that observation, Craig?
I told my teacher, after my first week or so of having the ehorn, that I thought it made playing the oboe easier. The oboe is so much smaller that once I was able to handle the ehorn, I felt much more in control of my oboe fingers.
Dutchy, if you can play the oboe, you can almost certainly play the ehorn. It is heavier in weight, and requires substantially more air (rather like what a clarinet requires). The embouchure is more relaxed, and perhaps uses a little overbite (like bassoon).
The thing I notice about transposing oboe parts for ehorn is that you have to pay attention to the range in which the important notes lie, because the color and character of a passage has a lot to do with where the note lies on the instrument.
For example, my quintet does an arrangement of "Funeral March of a Marionette" (aka the Alfred Hitchcock theme), which prominently features the oboe growling out the main melody on low e down through low b. One of our quintet members thought it would be delightful to try the ehorn on that melody, thinking it would add even more depth to the sound.
What we discovered is that, in raising the written pitch of the oboe part to accomodate the ehorn, the essence of the low-range growliness was lost. So, it was back to the oboe.
Susan
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