Author: vboboe
Date: 2006-10-01 21:20
Hey, welcome to the board! What's really GREAT is that you've decided to take up oboe in your ... ahem ... late youth :-)
I'm only young when i put a decimal point in front of my legal age, my olde and occasionally arthritic fingers are specialists in andante now (first year sub-largo, second year adagio, hey, for me that's progress ;-)
What is going on with this oboe revival phenom these last few years?
Echo of Oboe's golden age? Let's see, that would be roughly about 1650 to 1775 so that mean we're in Oboe's tri-centenary century now, Ye Grand Master Oboe in the Airwaves seems to be having a big party and recruiting more players to celebrate ... i think it's wunnerful, play on :-)
Don't fault yourself on your starting instrument choice, i had a marvellous listening experience at a band festival last spring where a young fella on a basic (no low B-flat) plastic Selmer sounded really good, nice tone, lovely vibrato, expressive playing ... it's not the oboe or the reed, it's the player who can play the best of both
Sorry to read you're having trouble getting started on an carefully selected beginner instrument not adjusted correctly, makes things a bit harder, do yourself a favor and make it a priority to getting that fixed ASAP ... at the moment, your newbie embouchure isn't able to play very long, so you won't miss your new instrument as keenly as you would as when you're getting ahead and able to play more of your favorites tunes
<<But I really can't seem to understand the true purpose of this key>>
... that right hand G#/Ab key sure is a boon as an alternate sequence when playing conservatory fingering in keys with 3 sharps or 4 flats & more, the nicest thing about using the right G# or Ab is you can easily rock up cleanly from F# or Gb, whereas ascending to left G# / Ab is more of a challenge to clean up a blip of G sneaking in there if Left fingers 3 & 4 aren't fully in synch -- which intermediate 2-3 year beginners like me still find they aren't :-{
... until then right Aflat just sits there waiting to be wanted as a trill key, at the present time i can actually trill it better than the uneven left finger side (such as in 8 bars trilling for Ukrainian Bell Carol) -- or, can also use it in a fast run sequence such as G-flat right-side Ab to forked Bb, B to Db, etc, and descending back to G-flat
... what music are you starting on and want do you want to move on to?
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