My daughter, 15yo, is auditioning for her high school’s wind ensemble. She’s been playing the oboe for 4 years. Any recommendations?

Hi! I am a current high school sophomore and I currently play piano and saxophone. I have been absolutely enamored by the sound of the oboe for quite a long time now and I recently purchased a used wooden oboe from eBay. (The brand is "conn") I am looking for good pre-made beginner reed recommendations preferably on amazon for a begging oboist.

Hi I've played oboe for most of my life and was recently asked to audition for a concerto. I was advised however to choose a string orchestra rather than full orchestra accompaniment as our string orchestra is made up solely of more experienced players and is a pheasable option for the oboe whereas it is less so for the other main instrumentalists who are pianists.

Do you have any recommendations of repatoire to play? I'm currently considering the Vaughan Williams or the Cimarosa but would like to consider other rep as well.

Edit: ideally romantic or 20th century as I find myself more comfortable performing from these periods and my director of music also recommended playing from these periods in his invite to audition.

Are there risks to soaking a reed for too long? Like 5+ mins

hi everyone, i’m in high school and i have a massive english horn/oboe solo coming up. i am struggling to use vibrato and when i do use it it sounds very pulse like, almost like a metronome. it is not musical. this is a last ditch effort to see if there are any tricks or “hacks” to getting my vibrato. i’ve tried both stomach and throat and can’t really make it super musical. please help or leave any tips if you also struggled with getting your vibrato.

I am a multi instrumentalist by hobby and I’ve wanted to learn the oboe for sometime. I bought two reeds from Sweetwater that were specifically recommended on multiple websites for beginners, though I cannot make my starting pitch sound like a C to save my life. On both of them depending on how far I put it into my mouth I can get it between an F sharp and a B-flat.

I am a brass player normally and have a decent understanding on how instruments work, but I don’t know how to fix this problem.

I should clarify as well when I plug the Reed into the oboe. It makes a sounding pitch, but does not change when I tried to play any notes.

Hello! I'm in Mexico and well oboe reeds are difficult to find here. I bought two Emerald oboe reeds to try and they were not great. I've tried Jones as well. Meh.

Do you guys know of any really good professional oboists who make their own reeds and sell online? I've tried Danny Cruz from Oboe files, but there is no international shipping. I see Jennet Ingle sells some and does have international shipping, but I want to know if what other options there are first since she said she's changing hers to subscription only and well that's just too expensive for me to do a monthly subscription. (The reeds go for $250-$800 MXN after the exchange rate. I can buy two weeks of groceries with that here).

Hi, I’m pretty new to the oboe and ive found that its been difficult gaining the confidence to play by myself since I was used to be in one of the biggest sections but I’ve been getting better. A while back. I was given a solo since I’m the only oboe, It was really exciting and the solo is 6~ measures long and it truly isn’t that hard. But yesterday I played it infront of the whole band and I was panicking and felt like i could barely breathe. All of my note came out really wobbly because I was shaking and afterwards I was really embarrassed because I have been working since hard on it just to mess up. Does anyone have any tip, advice, or suggestions in what i should do?

Ps. Im sorry if my writing is really bad, Im not the best writer.

TLDR: I Performed my solo in practice and got very nervous and sounded really bad, any advice?

Do I need to practice everyday to the point of exhaustion to really build strength? I’m currently attempting 7 page Hummel and it is very long. 🤣 Thank you!

As a percussionist, my experiences within the wind instrument field are sadly limited to the knowledge gained in Tech classes through my degree. That said, I would LOVE to have some assistance in developing a list of tips and tricks to help develop my students’ skills and techniques! Feel free to comment down below any and all tips you have for embouchures, sound production, posture, technique, difficult notes, instrument tendencies, etc! Any information is helpful, and I couldn’t thank you guys enough!

The title basically explains it all, I’m currently playing through the Hummel Introduction theme and variations for oboe. Thank you all!

So, I’ve been making reeds on my Chiarugi ($50) reed knife which I’ve noticed has begun to cause issues. For example, my favorite part of the knife is at the tip because it’s easier for details, but no matter how many times I sharpen it it’s always incredibly dull, which I think is because of how cheap it is. This causes my reeds to tear from the notches the knife creates (no matter how many times it’s sharpened) and I can never get the tip thin enough without applying pressure, which will inevitably destroy the tip. Anyways, I was recommended a landwell from Hodges website and it’s about $112. I was just wondering if anyone else has a good experience with this knife regarding how well it works with cane. I don’t want to sink in a ton of money if it’s not well regarded among other oboists :(

Or maybe the knife isn’t the issue I’m having and it’s my technique? But I don’t think that’s the problem.

I've been asked by a beginner to make them a reed, but I'm running into some issues. How do I make a reed that's easy enough for them without it being flat? I use the American scrape. Any tips will be appreciated!

please ignore i am geniunely stupid

okay. i might be stupid, tweeking or bugging, but i know for a fact my embrochure is right-enough to play C on the reed without the oboe, but whenever i play it with the oboe its always B flat or sharp, i noticed on the bell of it that it has the symbols of "B# ♮ " written on it, it's an older(?) Cabart A paris KK series oboe that i rented from a local music store, am i stupid?

hello everyone,

I am currently in search for a good new or very amazingly used oboe d'amore but all the main places online, forrests, MMI, etc do not have any in stock for trial. Is there any place that I may have missed to help me acquire one. Or if someone is selling I did see laubin has one but may be a bit out of my price range (25k) for the amount that i play the instrument. My budget top max is 12k

Sorry if this is too off-topic, but this seems like a good place to start: I am a casual oboe player, not professionally trained (was in concert band and took lessons through college though), and have played in local bands for 8 of the 13 years I’ve been out of school. I played English Horn for some of our concerts in college. I’m looking to purchase an English Horn, but I have no idea where to start (I’ve done research online of course but it’s so overwhelming). I have a Fox 450 oboe (wood upper joint, full conservatory), but an English Horn in that price range really isn’t in the budget this time around (looks like they’re around $8k new now, and mine was). And since I’d only play it a bit budget is more of a concern. I am extremely picky about tone, so my guess is “just pick a shitty cheap one” would make me not want to play it if the tone isn’t warm (yes I know that’s on reeds too, very few reeds need my high tone warmth standards). So, that to say, any suggestions on where I might want to look? What brands to look at or avoid? Or where to look for a used?

So I’ve been making my own reeds for a little bit and I just made a reed that plays so well, it don’t have to fight the sound. However, it’s running 40 cents flat so I’ve clipped it down to about 7.0. It’s still super flat and lipping up will only go to about 20 cents flat. How can I fix this?

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Hi people. Do you know why some videos of the idrs are not longer available in the archive? I wanted to see some performances of the Gillet Fox competition and a few of them are private.

I am currently my bands only oboist and I also play the English horn. I desperately want to play an English horn solo and my band director says it is ok as long as there is no oboe part. Does anyone know of such a piece? Also he said a flute can't double the oboe part Edit: to clarify the piece can't have an oboe part