You can find the answer in a film by Federico Fellini called Orchestra Rehearsal....it's a little weird but it's a great film...it also gives you the same thing about all the orchestra instruments
The "right" person for the Oboe is different for everyone. I want to take up oboe and I think that a person who is willing, takes pride in music, and who likes an odd, but beutiful instrument.
I love the sound of the oboe, and people say that I am "gifted" in music, and I supose I am. I did 3 years of piano in one. I am also "gifted" in math, which people say relate to music. I don't know....
Yes apparently the two work well together (although I enjoy music more than maths ) I think having a good ear for tone is useful with the oboe although pretty anyone willing can play it (after practice of course).
I wasn't good at music until I started oboe. Then piano and clarinet were at least 5 times easier than they had been before. I don't know why.... Weird, ain't it?
To play oboe you need to be unashamed at all times. Awkward situations do not bother you. You like wierd things. You're not the most sociable of individuals, but you are not without friends. You're friends are just as wierd as you are, and are either good at music or good at math/science.
I never felt awkward really playing oboe. Well, maybe like in middle school, when I first started, but people are more immature back then, and don't really know what the instruments are. Once you're in high school and college, its appreciated a lot more, as its one of the instruments that gives out color in an ensemble. The only thing is, 2 of my friends play low brass, so they always joke about how wimpy woodwind instruments are, and how just 2-3 brass players can overpower the whole woodwind section. But, then again, oboe is a french instrument. Its supposed to be played lightly and delicately, like a good, flaky croussant. It also has more solos in orchestra and opera than just about any other instrument.
I'm in a love-hate realtionship with croissants-on one hand they annoy me to death because of their squeaky noise, but on the other hand they can have a rich timbre, especially when you have two of them
OK Bassoon is a pumpernickel Baguette, but Contrabassoon is some kind of giant Chocolate Sponge Cake that makes cool rattling noises or sounds like an elephant in pain, dependant on the reed and dare we say player.
Flute is Candy Floss soaring through the wind
Cello is Steak.
Violins are potato chips.
An out of time string orchestra is bangers and mash
(oh my god that was a half decent instrumental joke)
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) I think having a good ear for tone is useful with the oboe although pretty anyone willing can play it (after practice of course).
