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| Make Me a Reed | Jim: Your sides are still opening a bit. I want to see what you're doing. Make me a reed. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=324 |
| Oboe Mecca | Graham: Did you hear that Jim is trying to convince Brian Seaton to move to Waterloo?
/ Ren: Really? / Graham: Yeah.
/ Heather: What's he trying to do, turn the city into a double reed mecca?
/ Ren: Heh. / Ren: We have no god but oboe, and Brian is its prophet! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=326 |
| Schumann Was Kind of Mean | How people deal with Schumann's "Romanzes" http://oboe-comics.com/?p=328 |
| Obohemia » Blog Archive » Decisions | Jim: Hmm... it looks kind of chilly out there. Maybe I should bring a coat. Ooh! Maybe a scarf!
/ Ponytail: Just... Get dressed.
/ Jim: Oh! I'm in the mood for sushi. Want some? I think Sushi King is still open...
/ Ponytail: JIM! / {{Mmmm... I want sushi, how about you?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=336 |
| Alive | Brian: Your oboe was a tree far longer than it will ever be an oboe. The wood is going to move and breathe. / Brian: You can pin cracks and put in inserts, but sometimes you're just going to lose. If the wood wants to crack, that is what it's going to do. Your oboe has a mind of its own. / Ren: IT'S... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=349 |
| Eight-Pin Cracks | Brian: You have about two pins per inch, so it's possible to judge how much your crack will cost to fix by how long it is. Is it a two-pin crack? A four-pin? An eight-pin? / Ren: I wish that didn't sound so much like bowling. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=351 |
| Chemical Reaction | Brian: I can fix this crack with crazy glue...crazy glue contains cyanide, which bonds well with grenadilla.
/ Ren: This means I should stop licking my oboe, then. / Brian: Sometimes it even causes a visible chemical reaction.
/ Ren: My oboe is smoking... / Ren: MY OBOE IS SMOKING! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=353 |
| Now Is the Winter | Now is the winter of our flappy sides,
/ Made glorious summer by these knives of Jim http://oboe-comics.com/?p=355 |
| Active Imagination | Brian Seaton Masterclass / Brian: ...For example, can I see your oboe for a minute? / Brian: Yeah, see? This oboe snaps right in half when you do this. / Brian: So in the winter time, what you want to do is... / Brian: And that way you can avoid... / Brian: ...And there you go. / [[Moy has been... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=361 |
| Gunslinger | WANTED for disguise, inversion, participation in the foul practice of modulation to the tritone.
/ REWARD. http://oboe-comics.com/?p=363 |
| Qui-Gon Jim Becomes DARTH MASON | Jim: I want you to play on the dark side of the sound.
/ Ren: The DARK SIDE? http://oboe-comics.com/?p=365 |
| A Musical Offering? | The oboe deserves total dedication
/ sacrifices must be made / You might have to give up time, money, relationships / Your soul / {Your cereal...} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=367 |
| Devastated | "I just remember all these oboes cracking everywhere. It was horrible." http://oboe-comics.com/?p=370 |
| Voodoo | Joel: The only thing you can do to make good reeds is eliminate variables...thickness of cane, number of scrapes, that kind of thing.
/ Ren: Okay. / Joel: But there's a lot to reedmaking that's just voodoo.
/ Ren: Voodoo?
/ Joel: Yeah. Lots of prayer and cursing and blind luck. / Ren: Perhaps the odd... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=373 |
| Resurrecting the Old Standoff | Moy: And HOW can you prove oboes are better suited to ninjas than pirates? / Ren: Pirates are uncouth and uncultured. They pillage. They insult people. They swill rum and go wenching. Ninjas are sophisticated and smart. Instead of pillaging and raiding, they accomplish their tasks through subtlety and... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=375 |
| Resurrecting the Old Standoff | Moy: And HOW can you prove oboes are better suited to ninjas than pirates? / Ren: Pirates are uncouth and uncultured. They pillage. They insult people. They swill rum and go wenching. Ninjas are sophisticated and smart. Instead of pillaging and raiding, they accomplish their tasks through subtlety and... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=375 |
| Relationship Coach | Jim: It's feeling smothered! Give it some space! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=380 |
| The Renegade Oboe Strikes Again | [[A ninja oboist leaps out of a bush to attack a saxophonist standing nearby]] / {{ ! }} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=396 |
| Physics for Musicians | Ren: I have a theory that the universe is made up of an infinite number of vibrating reeds. / Ren: I call it the "Reed Theory".
/ Violinist: It sounds familiar. Aren't you just ripping off the String Theory?
/ Ren: NO! Well, maybe a little. / Ren: Think about it, if the universe consisted of strings... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=398 |
| To Oboe, Or Not To Oboe | To oboe, or not to oboe: that is the question
/ Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
/ The nicks and slices of outrageous edges,
/ Or to take arms against a sea of variables,
/ And by opposing, end them? / To crow, to peep
/ No more; and by a peep to say we end
/ The mezzo-piano and the thousand natural... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=400 |
| To Oboe, Or Not To Oboe | To oboe, or not to oboe: that is the question
/ Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
/ The nicks and slices of outrageous edges,
/ Or to take arms against a sea of variables,
/ And by opposing, end them? / To crow, to peep
/ No more; and by a peep to say we end
/ The mezzo-piano and the thousand natural... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=400 |
| To Oboe, Or Not To Oboe | To oboe, or not to oboe: that is the question
/ Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
/ The nicks and slices of outrageous edges,
/ Or to take arms against a sea of variables,
/ And by opposing, end them? / To crow, to peep
/ No more; and by a peep to say we end
/ The mezzo-piano and the thousand natural... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=400 |
| I Feel That Jim Is Starting to Think Like Me | Jim: It sounds like you're playing on the edge of sharpness...the Edge of Sharpness? That sounds like a television soap. Only for musicians.
/ Justin: Bridget Jones takes up the oboe? / {There would a group of neurotic oboists, in the same studio for hours every day...oh, wait. My life is like a sitcom... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=402 |
| Because What Is Better Than Christmas? | He asked the class, "What went well?" and nobody said anything. / But when he asked, "What could be better?" the answer was obvious. / "Christmas." http://oboe-comics.com/?p=404 |
| The Studio Blackboard | "It was a group effort getting me into this competition." - Jane, on paying for the Concerto Competition with change / "Can I borrow your armpit for a minute?" - Jane / "Did you drop something on my shawm?"
/ "What does he want you to sound like? A chicken with something shoved up its ass?" - G / I... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=406 |
| Alex Klein Facts | Alex Klein sneezes at A440. / Alex Klein once played so demonically that his oboe turned inside out and lost a surface, giving us the original Klein bottle. / Alex Klein has been banned from playing Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" since too many audience members were decapitated the last time he played... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=408 |
| Alex Klein Facts | Alex Klein sneezes at A440. / Alex Klein once played so demonically that his oboe turned inside out and lost a surface, giving us the original Klein bottle. / Alex Klein has been banned from playing Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" since too many audience members were decapitated the last time he played... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=408 |
| Freebird | Things I am tempted to do at orchestra concerts #7:
/ Suggest encores. / Ren: Freebird! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=410 |
| The Title of Tabuteau's Biography Makes So Much More Sense, Now! | Jim: You're learning to express yourself through a vegetable! http://oboe-comics.com/?p=412 |
| First Lesson | Today, little Timmy is going for his first saxophone lesson. / That was a CADENCE!
/ What?
/ GOD! Why don't you SEE that? http://oboe-comics.com/?p=414 |
| I will be your audience | Moy: I'm at the bus station pretty late. / Moy: My mom is late picking me up. / Moy: But it's okay...
/ [[Janitor mopping the floor and singing "Oh Holy Night"]] / Moy: ...I'll wait. / {{Read blog post (same title). Happy holidays! =)}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=417 |
| Smells Like... | Jim: Okay guys, time to leave. Oboe masterclass. / Moy: Psst! It smells like *sax* in here.
/ Ren: ... / {{I am hiding from the BP Ninja.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=425 |
| My Flask Reed Case | [[Moy looks into her reed case]] / [[Moy pours liquid from her reed case into a shot glass in which to soak a reed]] / [[Moy looks at the shot glass]] / [[Moy takes a swig from the flask/reed case]] / {{Oh, how I love it so...}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=426 |
| Acoustics | Adam: My favourite place to practice is in the stairwell--late at night, when there's no one around. / Ren: Oh? I guess the acoustics are pretty great.
/ Adam: Yeah. Actually, the elevator is a nice place to practice too. / Ren: There used to be a percussionist who would practice marimba in the elevator... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=433 |
| Acoustics | Adam: My favourite place to practice is in the stairwell--late at night, when there's no one around. / Ren: Oh? I guess the acoustics are pretty great.
/ Adam: Yeah. Actually, the elevator is a nice place to practice too. / Ren: There used to be a percussionist who would practice marimba in the elevator... http://oboe-comics.com/?p=433 |
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