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Rainboe
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Hey thanks for reading! I'm playing oboe (not as main instrument) at my highschool and I'm having trouble playing from Db to Eb. I can play them seperately (not touching at all) but nothing more than that! If I try to play them like eighth notes or something it either sounds like I added a note in-between or the Db sounds like a shriek. I have a pretty short pinky, which is what I'm blaming it on. Is there anything I can do to make this easier or maybe an alternate fingering? We're going to be playing a piece with Db & Eb just about every other note so I'm getting kind of worried. I'm the only oboe player so there's no one to cover up how bad this sounds! I have way too much music to learn right now anyway and I'm pretty sure my band director is insane if he thinks I can pull this off all year.
Thanks for reading!
Rachel
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Rainboe
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Unfortunately my oboe doesn't have that key. Thanks for the help though!
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OboeLover4Life
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O.o Are you positive?.......
..................Do you perhaps have a picture of your Oboe? Just want to be sure.....
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Rainboe
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I don't have a picture but I asked my band director about it today. He told me it didn't have that key because it's a student model (and old too!) and he's working on getting me a new one. He said it might be here in a couple of weeks or a month. And this new one will have that key! (Yay!) But nope, no key for now.
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Canadian
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Wow really? An oboe WITHOUT a left hand Eb? I'd like to see that =].
By the way, anyone have pictures of a left hand C#?
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OboeLover4Life
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Well in that youtube video the left Eb key is there.
I believe you and your band director are confusing the left Eb with the Left F key which beginner models don't have. If your oboe is like the one in that youtube video it also doesn't have a low Bb key.
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The left Eb key is the X on two keys for your left pinky. Have another look at the link I posted.
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O sry forgot. Yes Canadian I believe I saw a picture of an Oboe with a left C# key. They are most well known on Tom Hiniker's Oboes which are made standard.
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Rainboe
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Well you've solved the mystery. I've been fiddling around with different keys and now I've got it! Thanks! You saved my pinky's life!!!  *hugs*
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Canadian
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OboeLover, do you remember where you saw the picture? I'm really curious as to where the key is. I know it's in the Bb, B, Eb, F cluster or the "feather key cluster". So, I'm not quite sure where it fits in....
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OboeLover4Life
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I believe it's next to the left F. I saw a picture a long while back searching about Hiniker Oboes....
I'll look around for it and when I find it again I'll message you a link.
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