Comments on: What’s Your Oboe?

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By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:39:59 +0000

Yeah, everyone likes teasing the trombonists. No one ever took us too seriously.

By: patty

patty — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:34:28 +0000

Heh … my husband was a trombonist. I do enjoy teasing him about that instrument.

Sure, I say you can stick to “finding your oboe”. Everyone should!

By: Brett

Brett — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:15:19 +0000

No harshness at all, Patty. Nobody really cares what Sinbad has to say, anyway.

Patty, thanks for setting me straight on why the oboe is used to tune. Regardless, I think the point of ‘finding your oboe’ still works.

I played trombone in middle school, and was probably never in tune.

By: patty

patty — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:11:15 +0000

I hope I didn’t come across as harsh. I didn’t mean to! Go ahead and blog about oboe, I say.

By: moth1

moth1 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:34:04 +0000

Yeah Brett. You probably shouldn’t have written about the Oboe since that’s not your specialty. Stay with what you know…a wise man once said.

By: patty

patty — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:17:40 +0000

That tuning explanation has been around forever. It’s not true, though. We can alter our pitch very easily. I’m not sure who started the rumor; probably not an oboist!

We ARE much easier to hear … it’s more about our timbre (pronounced tamber), really.

Just a little FYI.