I found the mature content warning place! Even if I couldn't exactly tell you where I found it again. The exact link details melted in my memory fast. It was under the profile adjustment page somewhere.
It is really how I motivate myself to work so hard to make it functional every single time. Assembly is a huge part of the routine - and the allure makes me want to keep making an attempt for long enough to merit the complex set-up motions. I have attempted to just leave it on a stand, but then it gets exposed to the elements much easier than when hidden in the case. Let me see if I can locate that stand since I'm talking about it xD ...it disappeared. My lap tends to suffice though! I don't play english horn enough to make a stand very necessary - oboists and english horn players are basically the same thing, much like alto flute and a standard one are welded by the same person. Really? No? I guess it really depends on the culture and what exactly you listen to - off the top of my head, the first movement of the Mendelssohn violin concerto is the first thing I contemplate, but also I was at that age of maturation around the same time I played it - erm, moreso than the instrument itself, certain players are imo ( erm, and my mother's opinion ^^;;; ) sexy. However, not everyone playing violin is like that, by far! The people who actually make an effort like Joshua Bell.
Oooh! *applause* My family won't let me at any quality string instruments besides the Steinway which can't really be taken away - my violin just broke like the week after I got it, because it was one of those like $20 deals from the Internet. (I did drop a pencil into the Steinway around thrice doing my Theory work - Phil the piano fellow has had to come and extract them, and FAST because my mother teaches piano students out of our home during the week and I wasn't doing Theory on the weekend, as I recall.)
It's not so much the range that is changed by temperature of the water (I've never put it in anything else because I think sugars make it too different) as the pliability of the reed to your every demand within the length of time you leave it there. In a pinch I take a sip of water and sit there waiting for it to reach body temperature, then use that as a makeshift reed persuader. When reeds are not soaked sufficiently, they are overly stubborn, and quality practice is virtually impossible. My bassoon professor told me that water fountain water was warm enough for a reed as bulky as the bassoon one, but I find that hot water works about the same way for every double reed instrument. (I think he considers me and the other oboists overly snotty and particular though - if you let anything suffice, then you automatically have to work with lower standards and that is frustrating!)
It is really how I motivate myself to work so hard to make it functional every single time. Assembly is a huge part of the routine - and the allure makes me want to keep making an attempt for long enough to merit the complex set-up motions. I have attempted to just leave it on a stand, but then it gets exposed to the elements much easier than when hidden in the case. Let me see if I can locate that stand since I'm talking about it xD ...it disappeared. My lap tends to suffice though! I don't play english horn enough to make a stand very necessary - oboists and english horn players are basically the same thing, much like alto flute and a standard one are welded by the same person.
Really? No? I guess it really depends on the culture and what exactly you listen to - off the top of my head, the first movement of the Mendelssohn violin concerto is the first thing I contemplate, but also I was at that age of maturation around the same time I played it - erm, moreso than the instrument itself, certain players are imo ( erm, and my mother's opinion ^^;;; ) sexy. However, not everyone playing violin is like that, by far! The people who actually make an effort like Joshua Bell.
Oooh! *applause* My family won't let me at any quality string instruments besides the Steinway which can't really be taken away - my violin just broke like the week after I got it, because it was one of those like $20 deals from the Internet.
(I did drop a pencil into the Steinway around thrice doing my Theory work - Phil the piano fellow has had to come and extract them, and FAST because my mother teaches piano students out of our home during the week and I wasn't doing Theory on the weekend, as I recall.)
It's not so much the range that is changed by temperature of the water (I've never put it in anything else because I think sugars make it too different) as the pliability of the reed to your every demand within the length of time you leave it there. In a pinch I take a sip of water and sit there waiting for it to reach body temperature, then use that as a makeshift reed persuader.
When reeds are not soaked sufficiently, they are overly stubborn, and quality practice is virtually impossible.
My bassoon professor told me that water fountain water was warm enough for a reed as bulky as the bassoon one, but I find that hot water works about the same way for every double reed instrument. (I think he considers me and the other oboists overly snotty and particular though - if you let anything suffice, then you automatically have to work with lower standards and that is frustrating!)
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