Dear all, I recently got a plastic oboe from the former Soviet Union off eBay. The instrument was made in 1972 and exhibit interesting features. The tone...
I would suggest a thin wooden rod with a strip of cotton cloth wound around it, water as solvant. Paul ... -- Paul Hailperin Riedichen-Hütten 1 D-79669 Zell ...
P. Hailperin
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Oct 12, 2005 8:05 am
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Hi Wai What an intereesting oboe! Some comments. The closed standing low C is not unique to the Sovietskis, it is seen on some Eastern oboes of the 19th & ...
Robert Howe
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Oct 12, 2005 11:07 am
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Hi Wai Kit, As Robert says, that fingering system sounds standard for pre-Gorbachev Russian oboes, and for the late 19th and early 20th-century German ones...
Hello Wai! Congratulations! Such an oboe is difficult to find even here in Russia now! But I really remember, what is this, cause I started with the same ...
Robert, Thanks for not reaming out that Grenser!!! You have enriched future generations. Paul ... -- Paul Hailperin Riedichen-Hütten 1 D-79669 Zell Germany ...
P. Hailperin
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Oct 12, 2005 1:09 pm
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Hi, does anyone have Randy Cook's e-mail address ? Thanks and all the best Peter...
Hello, I'm tokinori, an new member. I play an classical oboe after Grundmann and I have a problem about louder sound. In chamber orchestra, the conductor said...
Hello Tokinori, and welcome! It is certainly historical to place cloth or a wood plug in the bell to mute the sound, there are a number of descriptions of...
Dear Tokinori, Before putting big or little handkerchief inside your bell, try to find with your reed the scraping which allow you to play softer (opening of...
marc.ecochard@...
Oct 17, 2005 5:55 am
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Dear Tokinori, To make a mute for your hautboy bell, take a quarter of a sheet of writing paper and lightly crush it in to the shape of a ball that is slightly...
Sand & Tara Dalton
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Oct 17, 2005 4:22 pm
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Hi There, Although I do not agree with the idea of a mute for playing softer (it should be used for a different sound quality - e.g. for playing a funeral ...
Georg Corall
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Oct 17, 2005 7:38 pm
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YANAGITA-San, welcome. Muting was done several ways. The aria in the Lukaspassion formerly attributed to Bach called for an hautboy band "mit Papier gedämpft"...
Bruce Haynes
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Oct 18, 2005 4:06 am
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Dear Yanagita, You may want to Google "Janet Page" who has written extensively on oboe mutes. She wrote her dissertation on this subject. At Janet's...
Hello Everyone, Two questions: I'm working on Dreyer's 4th Sonata. I'd be interested to know what people do with the C# in the second last bar of the final...
...and to add my thoughts on muting-- I've experimented w/ mutes on modern oboe to be able to play very softly in the lower register. the problem is that every...
sarahsw@...
Oct 18, 2005 1:32 pm
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Sarah's ring of felt with a ribbon extractor is reminiscent of the saxophone mutes that were common in the heyday of the c-melody sax in the 1920s. A doughnut...
Cecil Adkins
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Oct 18, 2005 3:24 pm
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I will second (third? fourth?) Quantz's preferred method of a damp sponge (by the way, use natural sponge, not the plastic stuff- that's what Quantz used.) to...
Dear colleagues, I'm pleased to see other people taking an interest in mutes; I became quite fascinated by the idea some time ago--I forget how it started... I...
Hi all, I saw a used Oboe da Caccia for sale at a price "too good to be true", and the seller said it was originally made/sold by Moeck. Moeck no longer sells...
Hello to All, I am looking into pursuing the hautboy, but have several questions for such a knowledgeable crowd. I am currently borrowing an instrument, a ...
Rick's e-mail is seraphin@... , however Stephen Bard is not only a good source for cane, but he has also said that he is making the "B" staples that...
sarahsw@...
Oct 20, 2005 1:08 am
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Dear Janet, I recall we were playing Brandenburg I together in North Carolina years ago when the discussion of mutes came up. Was it you who gave me my stash...
Moeck used to sell a straight instrument of the sort we might call a taille or an English Horn, and called it "Oboe da caccia". Could it be that the instrument...
P. Hailperin
P.Hailperin@...
Oct 20, 2005 7:45 am
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Hi, Bruce Thank you for you advise. I try the cotton which is used at a hospital. I feel good. It's easy to play My Grundmann oboe. YANAGITA tokinori ...
I don't think Harry had anything to do with it -- the design is probably from the old Steinkopf days. I've never seen one but it probably resembles a modern...
Thanks, Paul and Stephen, for the info. Looks like the old adage "if something's too good to be true it probably is" may apply here. I've sent the seller an...
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