Bboard Keeper threads
Thursday August 02 2007
The oboe Bboard is one of several woodwind discussion forums. They have one section called “Keepers” which is kind of “the best of the best”. There are some really interesting threads, and some funny ones too which will give you a good laugh. One example is this thread, about someone’s stand partner showing up drunk. It’s worth just taking a brief browse through it.
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Haunting Oboe Music… the Band…
Thursday August 02 2007
a Prayer:
Dear Lord.Why did this band have to pick the name “Haunting Oboe Music?“ It has nothing to do with oboe. In fact, most oboists probably don’t like this kind of music. Is this your idea of a joke? Is this the kind of music oboists in hell have to listen to? Does Jesus have a grudge against the oboe?
Lord, please use divine intervention to change their name. Reveal yourself to the band, so that they may wake up and say, “Oh my! Jesus has just given us a new name! We are to be the Haunting Sackbut Music!”
For the sake of all oboists, please show your power Lord.
In Jesus name. Amen.
Oboe Comics
Thursday August 02 2007
Someone has begun an oboe comics website. The most recent comic here is rather disgusting, kind of like middle school humor. But there are some other funny comics.
"CLICK"
Thursday August 02 2007
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHofztiJUEY]
The picture is out of focus (and focused on strangely focused on Barbara in the Background instead.)
It was taken with a Samsung 5.0 mega pixel digital camera (the same camera I take all my other reed pictures with).
But you can clearly hear the “click” as I set the overlap.
Here’s the second “Click” clip
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKYILlRJkE]
The cost of a good reed…
Thursday August 02 2007
— is the expense of my back. Ever since 7th grade (age 11) I have been making reeds. Today, at age 28, my back bears the consequences of bad posture.
My posture is terrible when I make reeds. Somehow, I have taught myself to crouch over, I suppose trying to find the perfect view of the reed with the light hitting it the perfect way. I bend my back over in a very unnatural way, and crunch my neck back as if I’m a hunchback. I think my bone structure and muscles have grown and adjusted to my abnormal posture as I made reeds, because today I can’t make a reed without feeling a lot of aches and pains back there. Most recently my right arm has been going numb if I bring my elbow at a 135 degree angle from my body.
Do any of you fellow reedmakers have bad upper back problems? How have you corrected your reedmaking posture? I’ve tried everything to correct my posture, but I never seem to get the right light or never feel comfortable while making reeds.
Nowadays, as I’m in transit and currently staying at my mother-in-law’s house as I await our flight (12 days and counting) I’ve been sleeping on the floor, which has just made my back all the more painful. I can’t even sleep at night from the pain.