TQOD

24. November 2014 · 2 comments · Categories: TQOD

Any oboe players out there? Can someone confirm for me that an oboe *cannot* be tuned in any meaningful way?

2 Comments

  1. amtabuteau
    November 24, 2014 at 12:37 pm

    Building an oboe is a game of physics give-and-take, so there are some notes flatter or less flexible than others. But an oboe is not fixed like a piano, of course. While playing, the necessity of constant flexibility is unavoidable in order to achieve just tuning. It is more important to train the ear than have “perfect” equipment.

  2. Patty
    November 24, 2014 at 2:10 pm

    I hope you know that I wasn’t asking this question, amtabuteau! I was merely posting a quote from a Twitter person! :-)