BQOD

10. March 2010 · 4 comments · Categories: BQOD

I figure, as long as I’m going to teach saxophone, I might as well add flute, clarinet and most recently acquired, oboe, to the pile. Right now the local music shop has a guy that teaches sax and clarinet. Well, that’s nice and all, but if I teach more horns, I’d be more likely to be hired as the sole woodwind teacher.

The disbelievers, they say, “But you haven’t played them all as long.” To that, I say, stick it in your ear.

4 Comments

  1. Tim O'Shenko
    March 10, 2010 at 4:48 pm

    Hmm, that doesn’t sound like very good woodwind technique to me…

  2. Gabrielle
    March 14, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    I loathe this attitude. One should always study an instrument with someone who can actually PLAY it. And leave oboe teaching jobs to people who actually play oboe.

  3. Patty
    March 14, 2010 at 5:13 pm

    I find it a very “ugly” attitude, Gabrielle. I would think that any student who read that would not want to study with the teacher! Sigh.

  4. Patty
    March 14, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    Oh … that might have sounded like I thought *your* response was ugly. I hope you know I meant the original quote above! :-)