![]() ![]() If any one of your limbs or any one of your organs goes rogue, you will end up with that terrible sound as opposed to the beautiful sound. Your lips, your tongue, your cheeks, in addition to having your fingers work in the correct way to get the correct fingerings. Now this is probably true for any instrument, but it’s so important because there is a razor-thin margin of error in the oboe, that you have to have complete command over your posture, over your diaphragm and your lungs, your breath control, all the muscles in your mouth have to be perfect to form the embouchure you need to play the double reed. So, what’s the difference between the really really good oboe players and everybody else? Well, the key difference is perfect coordination, perfect command, perfect control of the whole body. It’s a really hard instrument to get right, but it’s so beautiful when it works well. You have to be so good at it which is, as I understand, one of the reasons that symphonies and orchestras pay the oboists at the top level of their pay for the professional orchestras. Unless you are a really really good oboe player the oboe has a unique ability to sound like a cat dying, it is awful to listen to this instrument. There’s perhaps nothing better than listening to a really really really good oboe player, and perhaps nothing worse than listening to anyone else. I love oboes, but I would also say in my opinion, the oboe produces the most wretched music of any other instruments. The rest of it was just not worth it, in my estimation, because of the lack of oboe. I believe it was 2006 when I went to a Sufjan Stevens concert and my biggest memory is how disappointed I was that he didn’t bring his oboist with him for that concert. Some of his albums had these great orchestras that often featured the oboe. There was also a band I listened to a lot in college, a guy named Sufjan Stevens. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Oboe Concertos are among my favorite music. I don’t know if you’re familiar with an oboe it’s a long clarinet kind of looking instrument except instead of a mouthpiece with a single reed it has what’s called a double reed, just a two sided very thin reed that you play. Now in my opinion the oboe produces more beautiful music than any other instrument. This is the word of the Lord that’s given to us this morning in great love. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and all were made to drink of one Spirit. Hear now the word of the Lord from 1st Corinthians 12:12-13,ġ2 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. ![]()
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