playing the oboe

why would anybody want to

[LucasPreti]

“I’m addicted to the feeling, the feeling of proper support” I quote this every week and nobody knows where it’s from

[solstice_is_sunny]

When that girl smashed the reed into the stand I am pretty positive that I died on the inside. It literally hurt my feelings 😂

[alexalani]

As an oboe player and a meme lord, I thank you for your content very much.

[Arundodonax]

Next time my oboe friends and I get together for our annual cathartic bacchanalia of reed-making, Ferling etude playing, stand tests, and psychodelic drugs, I'm going to have this playing on the wall in a loop.

[taylorkemp]

I am a clarinet player and I am obsessed with the oboe. I am so excited to prove to my teacher that I should be the oboe player.

[nathanadler]

Instructions unclear, Oboe ignited in my hands leaving my house a smouldering ruin. Though the largo I was playing pre-inferno was extremely moving.

[sadiemurphey]

I make my living by blowing through a pice of grass. And thank God I'm here.

[RoseCadenza]

I'm proud to call my oboist. In this recent September, I wasn't very sure about my decision of going after oboe performance in college. But now 3 months later, I am so happy to have made that decision. I love playing the oboe. I also started playing English horn which has been one of my favorite instruments to listen to. I'm just loving the double reed instrument families.

[missrandomness]

"Why play the oboe"
Don't, you don't want to sound like a dying screeching duck the first few weeks then go on YouTube to watch other oboe players and your self esteem crumbles as you hug your oboe named Aethur while sobbing as all the other sections look at you
-from the only oboist in a band fml

[smeagolmazurenko]

This vid.... and the whole time there is the most delicate oboe playing in the background...bruh

[idk-kimn]

as an oboe player, thank you for the blessing you have blessed upon us.

[zebrastripes]

The text went by quickly. I had to double read it.

[kystarry]

I have a hate hate relationship with my oboe. His name’s Charles

[Violet-pitj]

I once held a mini funeral for my chipped reed
😭

[tkegamingrb]

clarinets casually being thrown to oboe out of nowhere:

[thejman]

This is from a video called "Understanding the oboe" and it's an hour long. It basically goes through the whole history of the oboe and what you need to know in order to play it.



Did you know...
There are fingerings on the oboe that are meant to play notes in between naturals and flats. I think they are called fourths notes or something like that and you used to have to know all the fingering to the fourths notes along with the naturals and flats in order to be a successful oboe player.

[HonestFaraday]

jamie you give me reason to keep living, and i resent you for that

[hayden]

When she smashed the food into the stand I felt like I had Vietnam flashbacks to me accidentally slamming my reed into my stand hundreds of times

[that_oboe]

When I learned that the oboe exists, I was like "nORmiES" and ditched clarinet and saxophone

[oboista]

"your life and instrument as etichal and unforgiving" AHAHHAHAH thank you, now I know what I have to do