yeah i play flute and iv`e been thinking about oboe 4 a while and i`ve heard its really hard 2 transition from clarinet 2 oboe so is there ne way it would b easier from flute 2 oboe i mean they have alot of the same parts in music and stuff so i dunno what do u all think?

Hi,I wounldn`t say this from experience,but my friend April says it`s not that hard to swich from a flute to an oboe.They have the same scale,and it would be harder to swich to an insterment w/ a different scale.And if you don`t want to swich I would love to help you w/ any Q`s you have on the flute if I can.

Aucually, i think it is quite possiable. my freind plays flute, and i oboe. we have some of the same fingerings, and in high school for marching band oboes have to swich to clarinet, flute, or sax. and most people swich to flue. so if they can do it so can you! e-mail me at bananna793@yahoo.com or aim at bananna75020 any time! good luck!

Personally i think oboe and flute are very related. The fingerings are about the same except for a few notes and its in the same key, so you don`t have to transpose and stuff. I`m a flautist and play oboe in band. I started oboe about 2 months ago. I`m renting one from my local music shop. I`m not taking private lessons tho. I can`t afford it because i`m still playing flute and couldn`t drop those lessons, i luv my teacher too much. lol. its great being unique because not that many people play oboe, and it make you feel special. But the worst part about it is the stupid reeds. You have to buy reeds that are expensive, ive done my looking arround and shopping online so it isnt too bad. Also i still have a bad tone quality. I`ve improved alot but it still sounds like a duck even though i love the noise o f a pro oboist! I play oboe and flute but i play oboe more ( yes, im undedicated 2 my private lessons n flute) and its great. i luved the change. plus i was really good on flute and applied some of the skills on that to oboe. ive played bassoon too in band for like half a year before i made the switch to oboe so i sorta knew about the embouchure. Oboe was like a mix of bassoon and like flute so it sorta worked for me. But one thing that was HARDEST OF HARD about the tansition was the air stream. oboe requires like no air and flute requires sooo much. so i kept breathing in funky places and getting dizzy bc i 4got to release all the pressure in my lungs and blahblahblah, and it took me about 2 weeks b 4 i finally got the hand of it. well i hope that helped. i think the transition is a good one, and still continue to play ur flute.

omg thanks u guys soooo much i definatley will concider taking oboe now! really im not 2 good with the lots of air the flute takes so maybe this will b better thanks again if ya`ll have ne more advice i`d really appreciate it u guys rock!!

~MELISSA~

I also switched from the flute to the oboe. It`s not hard at all! THe only thing I have to work on is my embouchure and I often get fingerings mixed up because they are so similar!

how long did it take 4 u guys 2 pick it up? bc im worried it might take a while and i don`t have that long

thanks
~MELISSA~

Ditto here! I`ve played flute since 1988 and picked up the oboe about 4 years ago. The fingerings are just different enough to throw you off if you aren`t thinking about it! The embouchures took me a few months to develop and I`m so glad I started playing. I now consider myself an official "doubler".

Oh, and I asked my oboe professor friend how to play an oboe in tune and he said, "When you figure that out, YOU tell ME!" roflmao!

hey guys! I`ve played the flute 4 2 years and I made Honor Band so I guess I`m pretty good at it and my teacher says I have a good tone, but I really want a change and I was thinking about trying the oboe. Would that be a good idea, and how expensive are the reeds?

hi
i play oboe, and i often swap with my freind who plays the flute in band, and although i can play most instruments pretty easily...except piano...anyway
i find flute easy to play- i can play about the same standard of stuff on both instuments, but my freind has more problems playing the oboe

The music mignt be the same, but the way you do ur mouth is way diffrent. Not to mention that with flute you breath in as much as you can, but with the oboe, youll pass out that way.

Usually the oboe reeds run 6-12 bucks for the manufactured ones, but over time you learn they dont work very well. The best reeds are the handmade ones, usually that private instuctors make. The cost about $20. They create a better sound because the reed maker adjusts the wood to your mouth.
Ive tried to play the flute and it is impossible for me, but I have been playing reed instruments (oboe and sax) since I started band. I have attempted to play the flute, and no matter how someone teaches me, I cant play it. Changing from the flute to the oboe, however, may be easier than oboe to flute. Its good to play more than one instrument if you want to stay in band so you can march because the oboe is not a marching instrument.

Well, I know this topic started a couple months back, but I thought I`d add my two cents. I switched from flute to oboe just in the past year, and though I REALLY love playing the oboe now, it was a hard transition, one that required a lot of time and some sacrifice.

Probably THE hardest thing about the transition, at least for me, was the embouchure (spelling?), because on the flute, you pinch to go up octaves and can change your mouth position much more easily, however, on the oboe, you really have to keep your mouth the same. It took me a lot of time, but eventually I was able to conquer this first hurdle. I dunno about you, but I played flute for about 7 years before switching to the oboe, which meant that my ingrained flute habits had to be conquered. So, in addition to the big switch, I had to stop playing the flute for the whole beginning part.

I must say though, once you get the gist of it, it is sooo much fun playing the oboe :-). Even if it starts to take over your life.

Errr, one more thing, I could definitely see a relationship between the two, because nearly all of the fingerings are the same, but I agree with the others that the relationship is quite tenuous

YO.
ok, so, about... 5 years ago, I started to play the flute, a year after that, I started sax, and then the following year, I picked up oboe. The three of them have quite similar fingerings, but oboe is the one that calls for the most control in embichure (sp?). But even then, oboe has become my main instrument, and the other two are lesser, flute greater than sax though (sorry sax players!) but I enjoy playing all three a whole lot. -and the whole dyeing duck thing, it shouldn`t sound like that... work on support and watch tone if it does. (and if you push more air through, watch your pitch)