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| Awkward | [[Two oboists are at a Double Reed Con]]
/ Oboist 1: I'm an oboist.
/ Oboist 2: Me too.
/ Oboist 1: Student at Fridonia.
/ Oboist 2: I'm at Laurier. / [[Awkward moment]] / [[Another awkward moment]] / Oboist 1: You know what's awkward? Burping into your oboe.
/ Oboist 2: I know, right? / {{I KNOW, RIGHT?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=437 |
| Michael Sweeney | Adam: Michael Sweeney played on that recording.
/ Megan: Michael Sweeney...I've heard he has small reeds.
/ Adam: Well, you know what they say about small reeds... / {{No, what? Small shapes?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=440 |
| My Fair Lady | Eliza Doolittle: The cane in Spain grows mainly in the plain.
/ Henry Higgins: I think she's got it! I think she's got it! / {{Everything is funnier if you ask, "What if an oboist had written that?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=442 |
| Air Oboe | Jim: I want the dynamics the opposite of what is written. You're going to crescendo going down the scale.
/ vroooOOOOOOOM
/ Like a plane, taking off! / Jim: I am so professional. / {{You enjoyed making the plane sounds, Jim. Don't deny it.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=444 |
| A Late Welcome. | Aimee - Year 1 / Aimee: .... / Aimee: (I seem to be in a cartoon.) / Aimee: (I must be in an oboe comic.) / Aimee: (Stay calm...stay calm...stay...) / [[Aimee collapses on the ground]] / [[Dani arrives and looks down at her.]] / Dani - Year 1
/ Dani: Well, I'm going to shoot up now.
/ Aimee: .... / {{4 months late.]] http://oboe-comics.com/?p=447 |
| Contra | Megan: Here's your part for the Grainger, Nate. / [[Nate is perplexed, as the part reads "Double Bassoon".]] / [[Nate shows up to rehearsal with two bassoons.]]
/ Andrew: You know it means contrabassoon, right? / {{Contrabassoons make me *incredibly* happy.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=449 |
| This or That | Is it...
/ An oboist
/ or
/ A bassoonist? / Is it....
/ A double reed tool
/ or
/ A French Medieval Torture Apparatus?
/ (or both? / Is it...
/ The sound of a half-scraped reed being crowed
/ or
/ A broken penny whistle
/ or
/ Five people making strangled cries at the same time, non of which occur in a diatonic interval
/ or
/ Britney Spears, harassing the paparazzi? / {{Is it a strip club or a hair salon?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=452 |
| Patty! | patioboe (10:28:08 PM): Well, I have my motto, of course: learn to play well on bad reeds. There ya go! :-) / renegadeoboe (10:29:07 PM): It's perfect! Now just to deal with the "playing the oboe" part.
/ patioboe (10:31: 57 PM): Sometimes I think it helps, too, to think more about the air and less about the reed. I don't know if that makes sense to you, but just try it a bit. We try so hard to control, control, control ... then we forget to blow! But maybe I'm not making sense. / renegadeoboe (10:32:11 PM): No, it makes perfect sense.
/ patioboe (10:33:30 PM): Ooh. Scary. I'm making sense? Perfect sense? Hmmm. Frightening. / renegadeoboe (10: 34:04 PM): You oboe profs have a newsletter, don't you..."things to drill into students' heads"
/ patioboe (10:34:26 PM): Well, we do like to drill into students' heads! Tee hee. Except when we are pounding on students' heads. That's fun too. Ooh...Drilling, hammering, it's all about the oboe. Just add knives and you're there. / renegadeoboe (10:35:33 PM): You hammer oboes???
/ patioboe (10:35:53 PM) No, just students. We are very kind to our oboes. / renegadeoboe (10:36:30 PM): Fair enough. I may hide under the desk during my next lesson, now, though.
/ patioboe (10:37:13 PM): Oh we'll find you. / patioboe (10:38:19 PM): We can spot an oboe player from miles away. Too bad for you. / [[Ren has disappeared from view, her chair pushed over backwards.]]
/ Patty: Mwahaha! / {{I wanted to draw Patty with a cape because she is totally the superhero of the oboe bloggers!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=454 |
| Dudu Carmel Masterclass | Dudu: I want you to kiss your reed.
/ Heather: You want me to stick my tongue down my reed? / Dudu: FIRST date. / {{ ;) }} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=457 |
| Must Obey | Prof: Can anyone tell me why the orchestra tunes to 'A'? / Moy: Because the OBOE WILLS IT! / {{Mwahaha! All bow down before the oboist, or I shall tune you flat!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=463 |
| From Beyond the Grave | Moy: So, I almost died today, saving my oboe. I knew being an oboist was high maintenance, but really, KNIVES were involved! / Ren: Wow. Well, Moy, what good is an oboe when you're dead?
/ Moy: Well, I told Jim that if I died, he could have my oboe--- / [[Moy's oboe is gone.]] / Moy: Ren, you told Jim I died, didn't you?
/ Ren: Um... / {{Long live the oboe.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=465 |
| Old Reeds and Hot Makeouts | Person 1: I've sat in a chair George Washington sat in.
/ Person 2: I've worn one of Wayne Gretzky's jerseys!
/ Ren: I've played on reeds Dick Woodhams, John DeLancie, and Marcel Tabuteau MADE! / Person 1: Um. Didn't our old music teacher say that sharing reeds was like making out?
/ Person 2: I think I remember that.
/ Ren: Yep. / Person 2: So technically, you've made out with those guys.
/ Ren: I know! Isn't that AWESOME? / {{Reeds are boring. KISSING IS AWESOME.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=468 |
| Wind Machine | Moy: Ooo! We're getting a wind machine? / Moy: Of course...only a machine can harness such a power, for it is too pure for humans. If I could control this device... / Moy: I could rule the world! All who oppose me will fall! Mother Nature herself will bow down before ME! MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!! / Wind Machine: *woosh noises* / {{Seriously, what a FRIGGIN' disappointment! I want my money back!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=479 |
| That's Vibrat-OH | Moy: Then I auditioned at Laurier. It didn't go so well; I think I got in because of my vibrato.
/ Moy's friend: Vibrato? Do I even want to know what that is? / Moy's friend: At least tell me you don't...insert it anywhere in your person. / {{And you got into SCHOOL because of it?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=481 |
| Formal Analysis | PERIOD
/ Antecedent Phrase Consequent Phrase
/ Basic Idea /Contrasting Idea Basic Idea/ Cadential Idea
/ Half Cadence Perfect Authentic Cadence / SENTENCE
/ Presentation Phrase Continuation Phrase
/ Basic Idea/Basic Idea Fragment/Fragment/Cadential Idea
/ Perfect Authentic Cadence / OBOE
/ Rehearsal Phase Performance Phase
/ Good Idea/Bad Idea Panic/Panic/Panic/Cadence
/ Keel Over / {{Caplin is life.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=483 |
| Eboe | Ren: I just can't get used to playing that in 5/2! My reeds just aren't working out for me, and I need to regrind my knife. I sound like crap! Why am I even in MUSIC, sometimes I just don't know... / Ren: I need to stop being so emo.
/ Heather: You're not emo. You're oboe. / {{I may have to make a t-shirt out of this.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=486 |
| Graphing the Mean | Graph illustrating Quality of reed, Imagined Ability to Fly, and Mastery of the English Language as a function of Time in the Oboe Studio Making Reeds (in hours) / {{Whatever you do, *never* spend 24 hours straight making reeds. *Ever*.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=488 |
| Mineral Oil | [[Dani walks up to counter with her arms full.]] / [[Dani drops her armload on the counter, revealing several different types of mineral oil]] / [[The cashier looks shocked.]] / Cashier: I'm so sorry. / {{For those who don't get it, Mineral Oil is commonly used as a laxative, not just for sharpening stones. ;)}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=490 |
| Giggle | [[Out-of-panel giggling]] / [[Further out-of-panel giggling]] / Moy: *giggle* / Ren: You know, if I didn't know that she's watching Stargate, I'd be really creeped out right about now. / {{DAMN how I love SG-1!}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=492 |
| If I Fall, Catch My Oboe. | OBOE
/ Rehearsal Phase Performance Phase
/ Good Idea/Bad Idea Panic/Panic/Panic/Cadence
/ [[images depict Moy in all phases, and keeling over in the last one, an oboe catcher nearby.]] / {{Don't worry, someone caught it.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=496 |
| Fearful Performance. | Ren: *nervous vibrato* / Jim: I can *hear* your *fear*. / {{Can you hear my fear?}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=500 |
| Standing on the Dominant | Punting the Mediant / Standing on the Dominant / Poking the Submediant / Sitting on the Subdominant / Stealing the Leading Note / Expanding the Tonic / Bombing the Supertonic / {{This is me, bored in Theory.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=504 |
| Fleeting Thought | Have you ever noticed that the upside-down dotted eighth/sixteenth figure looks like a face? / {{You'll see them like that forever, now.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=507 |
| Lesson | Jim: You need to exhale when you play. / Jim: Because if you don't, the air will just keep building up and building up-- / Jim: --until you EXPLODE! / Jim: And then there would be guts and stuff all over the place. And then I'd have to clean it all up...I don't want that. / {{'She essploded jus' like this--KABLAM!'}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=510 |
| Oboe Feather | [[Ren leaps for feather]] / < http://oboe-comics.com/?p=512 |
| Bhosys | Dick: I found one kind of knife that I just fell in love with. And I thought the guy was going to die, so I just kept buying them.
/ Justin: How many do you have now?
/ Dick: Oh, 180 or so.
/ Justin: ...
/ Dick: I'm a sick, sick man. / {"At least I don't have twenty gougers!} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=516 |
| Feathers pt 2 | Super Ren: Wow! That was one hard sonata! / Mushroom-guy: I'm sorry, Ren, but the reed you seek is in another castle. / [[Mushroom-guy looks innocent]] / Ren: I'm switching back to a swab. / {{The epic battle was the sonata.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=518 |
| Herpes | Jim: Let me try your reed. Are you healthy?
/ Heather: Yeah, I just have a few cankers. / LATER
/ Jim: Are you sure your cankers aren't herpes?
/ Heather: Of course not...at least I don't think so... / PANIC
/ Heather (on the phone, looking at the Wikipedia on Herpes): Are you SURE Mom? / Jim: Oh, it was just a pimple.
/ Heather: ...I think I hate you. / {Do you know what I *went* through?} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=520 |
| Learning to Ride High | Jim: How do you learn to play your high notes well? It's like asking how to learn to ride a bike. You sit on the bike and pedal. You just do it.
/ Lora: Can we have training wheels? / {{If you're going to use analogies, Jim, make sure there are no loopholes. We *will* find them.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=522 |
| Fan Mail pt 2 | Psycopath Bassoonist: Hi there, is this Obohemia?
/ Moy: Oh no... / <<*dance music*>>
/ [[some of the clothing formerly worn by crazy bassoonist is seen flying in the air. Ren and Moys faces show varied levels of disgust.]] / [[Moy is writing a letter angrily. Ren is shaking in the far corner]]
/ Moy: (in letter) Dear Bassoonist, The OBOE is the sexiest thing ever created. Strippers and Bassoons will not make this comic any sexier. SO STOP SENDING THEM!!! -Moy- (And what's left of Ren) / {{title text: There's nothing left. She's gone.}} http://oboe-comics.com/?p=525 |
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