Dear All, after some weeks of testing it I am happy to announce the new version 1.8 of Music for Oboe seems to work well. The new URL (which will hopefully not...
Dear all, I just thought of something -- looking at old paintings of oboists, I see that they held the oboe at a smaller angle (i.e. closer to the body) than...
Could you please tell us which paintings you are thinking of? The ones that first come to my mind are all not in playing posture. Yours, Paul ... -- Paul...
P. Hailperin
P.Hailperin@...
Sep 2, 2005 4:51 pm
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Dear Wai, dear all, I have a funny suggestion: And what if those players on the paintings you mentionned were just tired of holding their oboes too high while...
I would like to replace "scientific proofs" with " scientific standards" in my previous message...Do you have an eraser? ... Dear Wai, dear all, I have a funny...
I can think of Hogarth's "Enraged Musician" which looks pretty Viennese. On the other hand, in that drawing of AMR Barret the oboe is nearly vertical! ... ...
I have another idea why oboists in paintings might be holding the oboes lower than they would normally play them. If an 18th-century oboist were of the social...
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Sep 3, 2005 4:51 am
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Interesting idea, Mary. But I have always wondered why modern oboists in the States for decades have mostly held their instruments far more vertically than...
S.Mesirow
music2u@...
Sep 3, 2005 8:36 am
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Hello All, Hope this question isn't too appropriate, but perhaps if no one can help, I would appreciate a website. For about a year now, I have had a problem...
S.Mesirow
music2u@...
Sep 3, 2005 9:03 am
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Hi Sjel, I would bet that it is a mechanical problem, wear or dirt, and that whoever checked it out didn't find it. Interesting that the affected keys are...
I have also noticed that many 19th-century oboe methods describe or illustrate a low playing angle to the body. I made some comments about some examples in an...
... Quite likely, considering the rivalry between the Guild and the Académie! (See "The Oboe," p. 120) I'm curious, when did the thumbrest come in? If it...
Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Sep 3, 2005 1:20 pm
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Doesn't the angle we hold the oboe also depend on how we make our reeds? I noticed last summer while playing in an opera on Classical oboe that my English...
sarahsw@...
Sep 3, 2005 1:42 pm
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on 9/3/05 9:42 AM, sarahsw@... at sarahsw@... wrote: Ray Still, principal of the Chicago Symphony for over 40 years and with whom I also...
Robert Howe
arehow@...
Sep 3, 2005 2:19 pm
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Hi everyone! Peter put a lot of work into this online edition of Bruce's bibliography. If all of us could take a bit of time to add any additional info we...
Linda Leighton
leighton@...
Sep 3, 2005 9:16 pm
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MessageHey Steve, Thanks for the speedy response, but it is defitely not mechanical. I suspect some kind of virus, especially insidious since it involves the...
S.Mesirow
music2u@...
Sep 3, 2005 10:43 pm
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Or does the way we make reeds depend on the angle we hold the oboe?...
Lacking anything written (as in the examples about posture when playing violin) and relying on various iconography that is only consistent in its inconsistency...
³Lacking anything written (as in the examples about posture when playing violin)² It is written: ³In holding both of these instruments (hautboy and bassoon)...
Sand & Tara Dalton
dalton@...
Sep 4, 2005 2:57 pm
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Pardon me if somebody already mentioned this... taken from Bruce Haynes' book 'The Eloquent Oboe'... Hotteterre(1707): "You should hold the hautboy more or...
oops, Ok, so I of course forgot all I've read about who said what about posture :-[ The ifnormation is there but as usual, open to interpetation and or...
Dear Matthew, Your points were well taken. Could you please explain exactly what is inconsistent or open to interpretation about the four quoted sources that...
Sand & Tara Dalton
dalton@...
Sep 5, 2005 3:49 pm
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Hallo Katharina! Das ist ja lustig, dass Peter mir zuvorgekommen ist ;-)! Hier bin ich, viele Grüße, Julia...
Julia Belitz
juliabelitz@...
Sep 5, 2005 8:58 pm
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Oops! Sorry all for my e-mail in german, it was the wrong e-mail adress. Julia...
Julia Belitz
juliabelitz@...
Sep 5, 2005 9:01 pm
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I may have been unclear in my meaning in my writings and through my late night mistake. I contend though, that the manner of holding an oboe varied as much 300...
Matthew, Thanks for your interpretation of the quotes. One thing that I thought WAS consistent about the quotes was that they all mention holding the head up ...
Sand & Tara Dalton
dalton@...
Sep 6, 2005 10:34 pm
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Mary Kirkpatrick
mkirk7@...
Sep 7, 2005 1:05 am
1551
Dear all, I thought you would like to know about a new article on an early oboe maker: Tula Giannini, "Frederic Triebert (1813-1878), Designer of the Modern ...
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