Got me an Oboe

[safeinOhio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=2WJhax7Jmxs

I buy and sale lots of stuff, love to buy and sell music instruments. One of my pickers brought me an Oboe the other day, he said it was a clarinet. One time I had a piccolo and it sold the next day. I've sold 4 guitars in the last few months at my booth in the mall. So, I had to find a video of what they sound like. Beautiful.

[jberryhill]

1. An ill woodwind that no one blows good

[PJMcK]

4. Nice twist of the phrase! (n/t)

ETA: Let's throw bagpipes onto the same fire, shall we?!

[jberryhill]

6. An oboe is a bagpipe which failed to be completely euthanized

[CincyDem]

5. Hey now. Lol.

For a minute I thought you were talking about bagpipes.

[safeinOhio]

7. I'm going to find out how sick it is, ordered a reed for it.

Dang, the reed cost what I paid for the oboe. I can't play anything, but my girl friend can play them all. I love her.

[Paladin]

14. Make that a DOUBLE reed.

Same for any bassoons you acquire in the future.

[haele]

16. Actually, if you find a bassoon, send it my way.

I still have my old sheet music for bassoon and viola, and I've still got a bassoon double reed from 1976 that I haven't cut and wound yet.
Our music department provided the bassoon. Picked it up the last two years of Orchestra because our bassoonist went to Juliard and we needed one - and I finally got tired of hearing the same the viola jokes year after year ...

Haele

[Paladin]

17. If a bassoon comes my way, I'll forward it to you.

My musical experience leans more towards brass instruments.

[Harker]

22. I've never heard a viola joke.

May I have one or two, please?

[Iggo]

20. Two reeds...over and under.

I played alto sax in high school. Oboes and bassoons were immediately to my right.

Was always amazed at the work they put into getting not a lotta sound.

[CincyDem]

2. 8 years of it elementary and high school.

Was always fun to be the only oboeist. Never had to worry who got the solo. Also, some of the most iconic classical themes were oboe solos.

[Ohiogal]

3. I remember playing in school bands

I played a clarinet .... but we did have two oboe players.

The oboe does make a unique and beautiful sound. I've always loved it's sound, along with the French horns!

[safeinOhio]

8. I've got a couple of clarinets right now.

For years I've been looking for bassoon. Very hard to find, only the school could afford one. Was in a restaurant a few years ago that had one one the wall and it was beautiful.

[Ohiogal]

12. I remember we had a bassoon player in our school orchestra too.

You just don't hear of those instruments any more. Bassoons are very cool and unique sounding, too!

[PJMcK]

11. Oboe can be an amazingly beautiful instrument

It can also sound like shit.

Double reeds are exceptionally difficult to play as the amount of air pressure and its control are tricky. In addition to developing musical skills and technical abilities, double reed players need to learn the mechanics of carving and fabricating their reeds which are very delicate.

The oboe is a very complex instrument. Here's a modern work that I find wonderful:

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. I just discovered the English Horn (Cor Anglais) in this piece.

Similar to the oboe, but longer. Just beautiful

[Historic NY]

9. Hessian music during the Revolutionary War...

had oboeists & hautboist (hautbois) among their ranks. Their captured music after Trenton was all the rage in Philadelphia.

[Donkees]

10. My favorite. Also played the oboe in school.

[uriel1972]

13. Oh boy... an oboe...

I love the sound of woodwind, but was never co-ordinated enough to play one.
Meh stuck in the brass section.

[csziggy]

15. I love a well played oboe - my sister played one

She started with a clarinet, proceeded to oboe and bassoon and pretty much conquered every reed instrument.

Since I suffered through the learning phases, I really appreciated when she mastered the instruments and love hearing a good oboe piece.

[Phentex]

18. I started with saxophone and moved to oboe...

I really wish I had started with the oboe instead. But the school didn't have any until high school and I had to wait until the good oboe player graduated.

I sounded like a sick duck for the longest time, but once I "got" it the solo parts didn't scare me anymore. I was never great, but I became passable.

[csziggy]

19. My parents bought my sister the clarinet - the rest were what the band supplied

The band director scrounged whatever instruments he could for my sister to play. She was a certified genius- won every math, science and music prize in school as well as earning three different scholarships straight out of high school. Unfortunately she ended up dropping music and got her doctorate in medicine, becoming a professor of neurological physiology at USF.

Her youngest son was given a music scholarship to the Interlochen Arts Academy, got a BA and MA from Berklee College of music and is now associated with the New England Conservatory. So music is in the genes!