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Hello,
   I have enjoyed this site very much so far, I see many of you are experienced players,may I ask non-reed making, oboe based questions also?
   I'm almost 55, and I see that others have come to take up oboe at a later life season, it must be a maturity, finally have reached my sences type of thing. I've played music all my life, dixieland banjo, rock bass and guitar, mandolin and cello-and can read well on bass and mandolin and fair on cello if I gear up for it (and slowly on pipes)-but mostly strings and mostly from chord charts or from ear. I play cello and mandolin in church regularly and can best be described as a "trained street musician" though I did play string bass in school orchestra and concert band.
   I have always wanted to play oboe and have looked at oboes on line. Last month the bass player in the Slovenien polka band I play in came in with a case, he said "Jon I bought this on ebay, fixed it and I want you to have it!". Awesome, it's an oldish Larilee-wood, the upper piece was broken in two places, but so far so good. I come to oboe from the Irish whistle and Scottish Highland pipes angle of "wind instruments (what a welcome relief to have access to every note)-so far I can read slowly in C, D and G, picking up notes daily. What a fun instrument-one is happy just playing whole notes. I need help with tone, we were listening to a classical piece and I spoke up and said "there, the oboe" and my wife said "why doesn't yours sound like that?"
Well I've only been playing a week but having a wonderful time, thanks for reading.
Jon Miller