Playing the Oboe
So I did a Google search on the phrase “Playing the oboe is”… The results are interesting! Some are normal and I would expect them, some are funny, some are wildly misinformed. Anyway, here are some of my favourites
playing the oboe is having a good supply of reeds on hand
But it is more of an adventure when you don’t.
Playing the oboe is one of those talents which not many people can say they have accomplished
True!
playing the oboe is harder than it should be
Yes.
playing the oboe is unique
Although it seems many of the other sources liken it to swimming underwater and cross country running.
playing the oboe is not an easy thing and you will be physically tired
Playing the oboe is not brain surgery. Making a reed on the other hand…
Jim always says making a reed is not brain surgery, but I’m pretty sure it’s close.
playing the oboe is an expensive proposition
Hurrrrrrgh
playing the Oboe is very attractive at the moment
This was a result from someone looking to take up a second instrument. Oh the surprise they have in store.
Playing the oboe is a little crazy and masochistic at times, but it is also wonderful.
This is a result that I wrote! Aww. This is how I feel about the oboe.
playing the oboe is to be a good musician
Well, more often than playing the violin, anyway.
playing the oboe is control of the wind
BLOW WIND AND CRACK THY CHEEKS
playing the oboe is easy once you’ve got a good reed
I wouldn’t say easy, I would say easier and also more fun.
Playing the oboe is like living on the edge
Like the edge of a knife? Of a SHARP knife?
(Did you see what I did there?)
Playing the oboe is possibly one of the easier options for the dyslexic pupil
I don’t know how this works, precisely.
Playing the oboe is an unnatural thing to do,” says symphony oboist James Gorton
Playing the oboe is movement
This is kind of pretty, and I know a lot of oboists who do move a lot. I am not one of them.
Playing the oboe is almost like blowing into a straw all day. It does something to your brain
SOMETHING TERRIBLE
Playing the oboe is a life long journey
Down a road plagued by wolves.
Playing the oboe is never going to look as cool as strumming a bass, but the oboe player is doing amazing things with music
Whereas that bass player…
Playing the oboe is like trying to play with your lips pressed flat against a brick wall
*visualizes*
*twitches*
playing the oboe is that we just look weird when we play
I always get multiple chins. It is awkward.
Playing the oboe is pure prayer
Like a crashing plane, but without a wing.
playing the oboe is that you get dizzy alot because you have to blow like really hard to get the sound and when you play a high note you have to blow really fast and I get light headded alot. [sic]
This is my favourite result, I think.
Playing the oboe is not a practice; if the oboe had never been invented, we could still, somehow, live full lives
LIES AND HERESY
Playing the Oboe Is Better Than Sex
Facebook Group Fallacy
Playing the oboe is fine, but being a musician and a music student in particular are not my favorite things
Playing the oboe is not that different from using a computer
playing the oboe is good for lung function and for strengthening mental processes
STRENGTHENING?
February 20th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
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February 22nd, 2009 at 10:31 am
We get good at what we do a lot of.
-Me
Inre making oboe reeds: “Working with organic material is not easy. Baseball bats crack too.”
-Me
Oboe reeds are a lot like golf clubs, highly calibrated tools of the trade where the difference between world class performance & embarrassing disaster is measured in millimeters.
-Donald Baker, principal oboist Detroit Symphony
It’s not easy being an oboist. You have to make your own reeds, since all of us have differently shaped mouths and lips. What may be an easy reed to play on will not necessarily be ideal for another oboe player.
-Anthony Camden (1938-2006)
Son, never take “No” from an inanimate object.
-John Mack’s father
If you keep learning new tricks, you’ll never be an old dog.
-John Mack
Come home either bearing your shield or on it.
-John Mack’s father
He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands, his head and his heart is an artist.
-St.Francis of Assisi
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:52 pm
I would do this for the viola but I’m afraid