Ken, Good question. Almost always the email address has a certian appearance and rings alarm bells. I am confident that intercepting such prospective "members"...
Why not require that prospective members fill out a data form including something about their background in oboes, musicology or whatever, for review by the...
Robert Howe
arehow@...
Nov 3, 2004 11:47 am
1121
The following link brings you to the search page for BNF: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ This next link is to University of North Texas online Lully Project, which has...
Oh the wonders of technology. This is the reason why I still subscribe to this group. GGibbs ... -- ___________________________________________________________...
Thanks a lot to everyone who replied to my enquiry for all the interesting contributions! Herbert, it seems that David Hogan Smith's e-mail is not valid...
Dear everyone, From the traumatic and regrettable events of this past week, as we question the sanity of the voting public or the corruptibility of the voting ...
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Nov 8, 2004 6:16 am
1125
Here is my theory about fingerings for c'''. Let me know how it strikes you! A lot of original oboes which makers first used for 415 models were really lower...
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Nov 8, 2004 6:19 am
1126
Apparently, C would mean "press the C key" and not "depress the C key" Marc Ecochard. ... From: "Mary Kirkpatrick" <mkirk7@...> To:...
marc.ecochard@...
Nov 8, 2004 7:09 am
1127
Thank you for sharing this handy chart with us. Its a rather nice chart, especially for being text. I personally already use the so-called "Forked F"...
I'm surprised by your preference for the tone of c"' without E. imho it seems small and "pressed". Paul ... From: "Mary Kirkpatrick" <mkirk7@...> To:...
P.Hailperin@...
Nov 8, 2004 8:49 am
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Thanks Mary for your comments. I have otherwise heard very little comment from USA and am disturbed by the thought that we all might be playing ostrich. Thank...
P.Hailperin@...
Nov 8, 2004 8:50 am
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Mary: Thanks much for your wisdom concerning the oboe fingerings. I think, in light of the recent discussion about spammers, that your political remarks are...
Cecil Adkins
cecil.adkins@...
Nov 8, 2004 2:00 pm
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... Yes, of course. They mean pretty much the same thing; at least the first meaning of "depress" is "press down." But "press" is simpler and maybe better....
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Nov 8, 2004 2:41 pm
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Regarding the fingerings for top C: I have to admit I ahve always used the Eb key, and the pitch question issue makes a lot of sense why I've always found the ...
Cecil, While I agree that a hautboy list should concern itself mainly with all things hautboy, Mary was not trying to profit from the list like a spammer, she...
... Dear Paul, Thank you for your replies. My theory is that the tendency of the simpler c''' oxx/xxo to be small and "pressed" is what we are used to, and...
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Nov 8, 2004 4:10 pm
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Dear Geoffrey, Interesting! (I assume by "XOOOOX" you mean "oxx/xxo" -- are you suggesting the former as a more natural notation? -- perhaps the "X" implies...
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Nov 8, 2004 4:33 pm
1136
Mary- I've been playing baroque oboe for only about a year and a half now, and so am a newcomer into the work of baroque, but I would like to add my comments....
I know that I personally tend to complain about my C7 (it is C7 right? Its been a while since theory) and notes in that range. But I don't think that some...
Dear Mary, et al, Thanks for the interesting discussion -- as far as writing down fingerings in emails, may I suggest an alternative convention which might be...
Dear Scott, Many thanks for all your input. As your message came through with some of the fingerings mixed in between bits of text and hard to decipher, I've ...
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Nov 8, 2004 9:24 pm
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Dear Bjoern, et al., I just talked to David Smith by phone and got his current e-mail address; it is <shawm1@...>. (Should have done that in the ...
Herbert Myers
hwm@...
Nov 8, 2004 9:25 pm
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In my daily experience the low register of modern oboes will give you far greater trouble, if you need to play at a sharper pitch than A = 440 Hz for which the...
Gerhard Veith
Gerhard.Veith@...
Nov 8, 2004 11:28 pm
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Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Nov 9, 2004 2:10 am
1143
dear Members of the hautboy research... some years agoa in my practice of a Vivaldi concertoMarie-france Richard lent me an article about short fingerings...
I hope you can suspend e-mails to me for the rest of the month, till the 30th. Otherwise a message will bounce back to the list each time, saying I can not ...
Daniel Deitch
oldhorns@...
Nov 9, 2004 5:35 am
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... This discussion brings up a point that seems to be quietly overlooked in the craft of historical instrument making. That is, are our measurements of early...
Robert Howe
arehow@...
Nov 9, 2004 12:29 pm
1146
There seems to be a paucity of historical instrument photos posted from group members. I have just posted a recent picture I took in the Berlin ...
Message This suggestion of Steve's is similar to what I have been using, naming holes by number. That's the way I think of it when making oboes. But it is...
P.Hailperin@...
Nov 9, 2004 1:24 pm
1148
Hi Mary, I certainly do have similar experience about where the most rereaming is necessary. Most and earliest at the top, gradually progressing downward. Even...
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