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I've seen a couple while rummaging through Scott's but I don't have any oboe stamps yet. As an oboist, this is a dangerous state of affairs!  Your challenge: show me your oboes (aka hautbois), English horns, and oboe d'amores! Stamps depicting their reeds will suffice as well! (Now that would be a rarity...)  Clark |
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Hi Clark....
It seems to me that a complete collection of material related to oboes would quite affordable but fairly tough to complete. Sounds like a great project.
.......and, welcome to the club. |
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according to Wikipedia: The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family.
They are used most in classical music. |
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Is this an oboe? Underneath the cancel? Upside down? The bigger long tube thing with a trumpet end and keys/levers/stops(?) sticking up next to the French Horn? (musically challenged here). I just happened to find this, didn't realize I had it. A nice surprise.  And what are oboe d'amores? Love of oboes? People who love oboes? (linguistically challenged also)  |
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It appears that introductions are in order. Tina, this is my oboe, Isabella. Isabella, this is Tina.  Puzzler: I really don't know what to make of that instrument. It is certainly not a modern oboe, but Handel's Water Music was originally performed on a baroque oboe (they've changed a lot over time). It doesn't look like a baroque oboe either; I'll see what my oboe teacher thinks it is. Clark |
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Oh, and oboe d'amore (oboe of love, Italian)... it is larger than a regular oboe, has a knobby looking bell, is pitched lower, and has a ... more mellow, warmer, less penetrating sound (to my ears). wikipedia.org has an image of a baroque copy and a modern d'amore
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Jeez, I would have thought that was a clarinet. Shows you what I know about woodwinds... |
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In my Junior High & High School bands I think we only had 1 Oboe player in the woodwind section. I myself played trumpet, but haven't touch it in years. Music is a wonderful thing to enjoy. |
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For those of you who have never heard an oboe or don't remember what one sounds like, here is a decent recording of one of my favorite oboe pieces of all time (couldn't find my favorite recording online!). The second movement of Marcello's Oboe Concerto in D. The full three movement concerto can be found on youtube as well. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb5xiuE1VUEClark |
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I love the melow sound of the Oboe Isabella is beautiful page fault. My Daughter is a Pianist and also plays Flute and Picollo, we moved around lots being in the military and her instrument weighed over 1000 lbs. Much harder to transport than an Oboe.  |
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Puzzler, I think the instrument on your stamp resembles a bassoon. All you wind instrument experts can correct me if I am mistaken.  Marty |
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I should say it resembles a bassoon except for the flared end and lack of proper mouthpiece.  Marty |
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My oboe teacher thinks the instrument in Puzzler's stamp in question is a clarinet. Though she admits that liberties are often taken in depictions of oboes in art. Nice try!
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I looked at a lot of pictures on the web and I couldn't nail it down to a specific instrument. I had thought it might be a bass oboe or bassoon, they seemed to sometimes have larger bells. |
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