Positive Reasons to Play the Oboe
I am going along with a suggestion made in a fanmail I received recently (made by a naive non-oboist) to give positive reasons to play oboe...
Are there really any valid good positive reasons/aspects to playing the oboe? I don't know. So I'll just try and probably pull some out my arse.
Here goes nothing.
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Reasons to Play Oboe
- Prestige (it is supposedly the hardest instrument in band)
- The esoteric appeal. The ritualistic reed making/fixing/perfecting is something special in itself.
- You can slack off in band about 50% of the time, when your parts are the exact same as clarinet or/and flute
- Gustav Holst's First Suite in E flat for Militiary Band
- Tight embouchure makes you better at--nevermind
- Small box to carry; good if you walk home from school.
- The same small box is a convenient hiding place for your secret contraband stash--and not like your mom (or anyone) would look there
- You will never get that "one time, at band camp" line
- That wonderful delusion (which is good while it lasts) that your tone will ever sound as good as the oboist who did the solo on Nightswimming by REM
- It makes you look like an intellectual. It has a smarter image than, say, alto sax.