You play the clarinet as you do an oboe, by holding it upright, blowing through the reed, and using your hands to change the pitches by opening and closing the keys with your fingers. The smaller E-flat clarinet is just like a standard clarinet, but about half the length. Its shorter size allows it to play higher notes. This is the grandfather of the clarinet family. The bass clarinet is so large that its top and bottom are bent to make it easier for musicians to hold and play. Its greater length allows it to play some of the lowest notes in the orchestra.
The bassoon is a long pipe, doubled in half, made of wood, with many keys. The bend in the pipe makes it possible for musicians to play it comfortably. If it were straight, the bassoon would be around 9 feet long! Like the oboe, the bassoon uses a double reed, which is fitted into a curved metal mouthpiece. There are 2 to 4 bassoons in an orchestra and they have a similar range to that of the cello.
Bassoons usually play lower harmonies, but you will sometimes hear their hollow low notes featured in a melody. You play the bassoon by holding it upright and blowing through the double reed. The air travels down the tube and then makes a u-turn and goes up and out the top.
Just like the oboe, you use both hands to press on the keys to open and close the holes and change the pitch.
Imagine a longer bassoon with a wider pipe. The contrabassoon is the grandfather of the wind section and is so much larger than a regular bassoon that its tube is doubled over twice to allow the player to hold it. It takes a lot of breath to make sound come out of such a long pipe!
The lone contrabassoon plays the lowest notes in the entire orchestra. Experience a fun and unique video series from the Oregon Symphony designed for pre-K through elementary aged children and their families to experience popular story books.
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It's not beautiful like piano chords are, but they are effective! Q: What other career opportunities are there for oboe players other than orchestra? A : There are career options that lie outside the orchestral world. I have friends who have careers in professional woodwind quintets, contemporary music ensembles, LA film studios, or are teaching at universities, so there are lots of possibilities out there. I even know a jazz oboist who is having quite a career.
Most oboists develop their skills through classical training, but those skills are not limited to that genre of music. The key is to develop outstanding and unlimited ability on your instrument and the performing possibilities within the music world will be endless. Q: What is one piece of advice you'd like to offer to the young and aspiring oboists? A : I cannot emphasize enough the importance of learning how to make reeds early on.
It's so easy to rely on your teacher and buy reeds throughout high school, but trying to learn how to make them while in the craziness of a first year in college is overwhelming.
It is a process that improves only through personal trial and error and will be, without a doubt, time consuming. Someone once said that a person cannot make good reeds until they've filled an entire laundry basket full of bad ones.
I think the earlier you can start filling up that basket the better! Q: In what key is the modern oboe, and what is its octave range? Q: Why does the oboe tune the orchestra, and what note is played? Q: How many oboes are in an orchestra section and why? Q: What other instruments are in the oboe family? Q: The oboe looks like the clarinet. What makes the two different?
Until then, most young oboists purchase their oboe reeds. There are several members of the oboe family. The oboe is the soprano member and is in the key of C. The second most popular member is the cor anglais, also known as the English horn. Ironically, this instrument is neither English nor a horn. It was given its name because it resembled the baroque oboe da caccia, which had a slightly curved shape and a bent-looking bocal and was called cor angle , or bent horn.
The word angle is believed at some point to have been mistranslated as anglais , or English, thus giving us the name English horn. It is the alto sometimes considered tenor instrument of the family and plays in the key of F, a fifth lower than the oboe.
The English horn has a longer, wider bore and a bulb-shaped bell. Instead of having a hole for the reed to be inserted in, the English horn has a bocal that the reed sits on. The reed is also a double reed but is distinct from the oboe reed, and the fingerings are basically the same as the oboe. The fingerings are similar to the oboe, and its own unique reed sits on a bocal that is slightly smaller than that of the English horn.
The bass oboe is the most obscure member of the oboe family. Like the oboe, it is in the key of C, but sounds one octave lower than written. The instrument looks like a very large English horn, but has a more curved bocal and again a different reed. Finally, the hecklephone and the musette are the least-use members of the oboe family. The hecklephone is similar to a bass oboe, but has a larger bore and a more powerful sound.
The musette also known as piccolo oboe is the highest member of the family, usually pitched in E-flat or F above the oboe, and is seldom used today. Many oboe-like instruments exist in non-Western musical traditions. Examples of these are the North Indian sahnai , which has a flared brass bell, the Indonesian sarunai , with a palm-leak reed and buffalo horn bell, and the leather-covered algaita of West Africa.
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