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Novelty oboe reeds

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For those of you not familiar with the instrument, an oboe is like a longer, thinner clarinet, but instead of having a mouthpiece at the top, you push a reed in.
—up_on_cloud_nine, Apr 01 2009

smoking oboe? http://img2.travelb...998399-Hookah-1.jpg
[xandram, Apr 01 2009]

Reed obsesive. http://www.rspb.org...edwarbler/index.asp
Cheep cheep, cheepy cheepy cheep cheep, cheepy cheepy cheep, cheep cheep. [eight_nine_tortoise, Apr 02 2009]

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       so like make it look like a hookah or something?
—xandram, Apr 01 2009
   

       So, the idea is?
—MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 01 2009
   

       Don't oboe players make their own reeds?
—bungston, Apr 01 2009
   

       Only if they have enough money for equipment... most buy from reed-makers.   

       I might delete this... I wasn't really thinking too hard last night, it's not really an idea
—up_on_cloud_nine, Apr 02 2009
   

       Could the novelty be that it makes the sound of a Donald Duck? Thus the waning fortunes of the Oboe can be restored as the instrument of choice for young children replacing the hideous recorder.
—eight_nine_tortoise, Apr 02 2009
   

       <dim recollection> Ever try a bassoon reed in a trumpet?</dr>
—csea, Apr 02 2009
   

       [8_9_T] Actually, recorder is very useful as a pre-oboe instrument, being *much* cheaper to learn, but having mainly the same fingering. I played the recorder for 7 years before stopping [because I left primary school] and taking up the oboe, and it helped me to pick it up very quickly...
—up_on_cloud_nine, Apr 02 2009
   

       And if I remember back to my time at primary school they come in very handy in playground flights. However they are not really tuned to any extent and so en mass sound absoluty wrotten.   

       Could the novelty be that you don't have an oboe, but just have an obsession with reeds? Like a Reed Warbler [link].
—eight_nine_tortoise, Apr 02 2009
   

       I heard the original Wild Thing on the radio this weekend. I am prettys sure that is a recorder solo.
—bungston, Apr 02 2009
   
      
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