Seriously, is this my introduction?? No, it can't be true...
When you have some ideas in your mind and you have a structure and message of what you want to say, then it is super easy to write an article or any kind of text. As you already have the main features mapped in your mind, the only job you have to do is to transform them into words that will show as characters on the screen. So logical, of course. But, logic and I sometimes don't go together. Anyway, what happens if the ideas are present, more of them, and they are fighting which one will make to the realization? Well, ladies and gentlemen, then it happens that you read a post like this one. When one idea will try to beat another one and you will have to search for a compass to get throughout the text. Or you just calmly close this post, scroll down in your feed and that's it. Are you still reading? Ok, well, in this case, I will have to get the free-flowing ideas into more structured ones and try to offer a better organized text. Not a promise that it will be successful, just a try.
More detailed intro!!
Some months ago, in one of the posts that @ylich published, we exchanged a few comments on the topic of being able to play several different instruments. While I play just the piano, Ylich is a multi-instrumentalist, however, back in school time, I wanted to play harpsichord and oboe too. It would not be impossible to study harpsichord, in fact, many of the harpsichord players started as pianists, at least, the base is the same. Playing the oboe would be completely different, a challenge that Ylich saw as a good one to propose:
¡Me gustaría verte es con el oboe! Jajaja, ¡un reto de marca mayor! 😂
Ok, in English:
I'd like to see you with the oboe! Hahaha, a major brand challenge! 😂
A challenge? 😎 Cool, why not! So, it happened that some months passed, I didnt forget the thing, but just yesterday I had an opportunity to fulfill the challenge. Ylich will see me with the oboe! That is for sure! ;) There were some celebrations in the town, ceremonies where music was included too. A choir, me with the piano, one oboe player, and one cello player. A perfect opportunity to have that instrument in my hands, so I asked for a photo. This photo is the proof of seeing me with the oboe, right, Ylich? :)))
Approaching slowly the main thing...
This whole taking a photo with this instrument gave me the idea to turn this post into a funny one or a new challenge to follow up. Here comes the part where the ideas started to fight with each other. While I also received a very good suggestion on how to build a fiction story around this post, I found myself not so creative to develop it. But, the challenge idea didnt leave today either, so let me try with this one! If it can be seen as a challenge, I would like to invite my musician friends to take part, and maybe the non-musician ones can have some fun too. Maybe it will just finish in this post and no traction will be, who knows. Until I don't try, I can not know. In case that someone would like to take part, some guidelines should exist. Let me present them, for this "challenge" simply named:
It can't be true
1. Take a photo with a musical instrument you DON'T play.
2. Write an anecdote about how you managed to come to that instrument and/or why you have chosen that one.
3. Write some funny or interesting facts about that instrument, anything you think can make us understand better and learn in an interesting way about it. Or you can explain how the instrument works, how it gives the sound, parts of it, it is up to you.
4. Share some famous / or less famous pieces composed for that instrument, any music genre, or try to play that instrument and record a video that you will upload for the post ;)
If you ask yourself do I really want to leave my instrument, well, the piano is an essential part of mipiano, so it can't be true :)) But if I start to practice one day the oboe, maybe I should be mioboe, what do you think? So this instrument, the oboe, is a woodwind musical instrument, with a double reed. The first regular oboe appeared in the mid-17th century when it was called a hautbois. The oboist who gave me the instrument, just for the photo, of course, said a few things about the literature for it. I learned from him that Baroque composers loved to write for this instrument, giving it a soloist role, so we can find a great number of Bach and Vivaldi oboe concertos. It is why one of Vivaldi's concertos for oboe and orchestra is coming to this post as one of the shares. Albrecht Mayer is the principal oboist of the Berlin Philharmonic, but in this cool video he plays with an Italian chamber orchestra, I Musici Di Roma.
The owner of the oboe that I hold in my hands also said that during the classical period it was not so popular as a soloist instrument, although in the symphonic orchestras it is always present. Did you know, that the whole orchestra is tuning their instruments according to the pitch that the oboe gives at the beginning of the concert? Have you ever heard that in a classical concert, the tuning before the conductor comes to the scene? It sounds like a discordant mixture of sounds, but the musicians know what they are doing and how they are tuning to perfection. Later, from the romanticism period, we can listen to some beautiful pieces, like this romance composed by Robert Schumann. Oh, how the facial expression of the oboist changes when she starts to play! Watch and listen to this:
In the 20th century, the sound of the oboe was used many times in contemporary music. He mentioned Hindemith, Britten, Poulenc, and also the use of the oboe in soundtracks. I had this piece already in my mind, Gabriel's oboe, the theme from the film The Mission. The composer, as you all know, is Ennio Morricone. Touching music, from Morricone who passed away last year.
It can't be true that I will leave the piano, but the oboe is beautiful too. Although to have a nice sound on this instrument, one has to practice a lot. If not, the sound is not so pleasant. Terrible, actually. What I leave now for sure is this post, but before I press that publish button, I would like to invite some musician friends, if they find interesting this small challenge. @edje, why don't try to find some way to participate here as a real artist? @edprivat, up for a new challenge? @karinxxl, you learn piano, so that doesn't count... but is there another instrument you could use for this thing? @musicandreview, you two, funny and lovely people, would you like to participate? @dreemsteem, I am pretty sure you would love this, after all, it is not the Moonlight Sonata :) And of course, I am inviting all who would like to try themselves in this initiative, I would love to see your chosen instrument. Have fun :)
Challenge accepted!
Cool!! 😎
OH MY GOSH!!!
it really didn't post!
AND i upvoted this post too!!!!
it was a HUGE comment hahahaha (i know - its no surprise to you hahahahah) i love this idea - and grrrr now my comment is gone. hahahahaha
ok - well... now you'll just have to wait to see my post in response hehehehe i hope that you enjoy it!! i'll try to get it done this week LOLOLOL
I KNOW, your comments rock haha, yeah, who would say, Leauge queen 💞
It is really weird the comment didn't post, well sometimes it just happens, indeed 🤗
Hurray, waiting I will be ;))
the comment not posting happens OFTEN to me. hahahaha
because I have so many tabs open and reading and engaging and when i'm done - i move to the next one to read LOLOL and sometimes i don't hit reply - or sometimes i do - but it errors. or sometimes i even just THINK i've replied and move on hahahaha
i'm glad that you mentioned it - because I would have thought that i did - when I didn't hahahaha
Well, thanks for revealing your secret how do you engage so well :)
When I am engaging, it doesn't go so quickly, hahha, and I don't open so many tabs. Sometimes it takes me a lot of time to write, and not so many people I can cover... When music posts, I read & listen to the performance, if I can I start to write the comment but sometimes I listen to the same performance two-three times until I finish my comment. Even a relatively short one. For the long comments, count half an hour or so 😂 Reasons... probably English not being my native language or other disabilities hahahha
When responding to the comments on my posts, I like to respond to them as soon as I can, same or next day if I didn't have time, but some comments hang there for several days and I just don't get there. Bad engager :)
hahaha well i type VERY fast. so a long comment takes me about 5 minutes to write because i can ALMOST type as fast as I think LOLOLOL
so that is really the secret - typing fast hahahahahaha
yo'ure not a bad engager at all... i love your comments hehe
The third movement of the Moonlight sonata will be easy to play then :)))
Hahahhahahahaa....it will be a piece of cake!!!!
Call.me Dreemthoven hahahhaha
No, No, No ... @mipiano without piano is like music without sound {shakes head}... also @miobo does not resonate...sounds like a star wars character
Maybe, just maybe I shall try your little It Cant Be True challenge someday
Why not turn 'someday' in this upcoming weekend?
Very good suggestion 🙌
Be scared ..... be very scared . A gnat has more idea of producing music than I {sulk}...and the only instrument I have here is common so not such a great story.
I was scared, and nothing happened? ;D no post from the-magus?
As Douglas Adams pronounced 'nothing continued to happen' ....true speak...I SHALL do a post...only because I feel I have let my friend down.... and also to give @edje something to really laugh about.
yesssss :)
I entered the challenge... Probably am very similar to you regarding producing music, but I did it! Now you :)
Yes, please, go for it @themagus!! ✨
Hahaha, we should see what @ mioboe could produce here :))) stars or wars, or starwars 😁
My friend, be careful what you wish for .... I is diabolikally ungifted when it comes to my second biggest passion .... music.
The challenge is open for everyone ;) Gifted and ungifted, musicians or non-musicians, all are welcome! How and when - that is the mystery ;)
Scottish bagpipes!
I have a feeling I am so gonna regret this... :D :D
Regretting? It can't be true!! :D
... waiting... for... bagpipes...
Your bagpipes :p
Oh, and I had hopes... but, should I even argue with you, before I learn the art of arguing 🤣🤣 ?
Hahaha 🤣
Before I started playing the guitar, I had a foundation Idea of the keyboard. In fact, I wanted to be a keyboardist but my passion went to the guitar instead. I fell in love with the bass guitar but my hands were not strong enough to hold the bass strings, so I ran to the acoustic guitar where I started with chords then I wanted more. That’s how I became the lead guitarist that I am today.
This is a nice story how you get to your passion, electric guitar. Yes, when the hands are small, young and with not enough strength, it is more challenging, but it is great that you at the end managed to your loved instrument !! Thanks you @starstrings01 for your story shared here, and if you feel the call for this challenge, you are welcome to join. It has no deadline ;)
When would I see a video of you play the oboe by the way. The one here is a picture of you only holding the instrument.
Oh, I am sorry, I gave back the oboe to its owner, indeed, and actually, I was so scared not to damage the reed so I just had it in my hand for the photo.
A short story: as a student, I played in a chamber group, I with the piano, an oboist girl, and one clarinetist. Before one concert, we were in the waiting room, having fun and somehow I hit accidentally my oboist friend's instrument and the reed broke;(((( I was so sorry
Now, I have special care how to treat the oboe ;) Just take it for the photo and that's it ;)
Me thinking in my head how I can lay my hands on a harp..
I probably won't find one so matte I ll go for a violin then, I d love to learn it, but I know nothing about it.
If I find or happen to come across such an instrument I done play, maybe a saxophone, I d love to join.
A harp?? Wow, that would be a nice one! Well, or violin, saxophone, all of them are great!! Looking forward to seeing your picked instrument and the story around it ;)
say whaaat?
anyway,
in Polish we say then:
„ładnemu we wszystkim ładnie”
🌺
Hahahaa, you knew I would try to translate, so yes, I did ;D
But hey, I am still not so good at Polish, though I would learn first your language than the oboe, it is pretty difficult to play it!! ;)
Thank you @rozku , no, wait ; Dziękuję Ci 😅 💞
😂
that saying means whatever you wear - a dress, a blanket, a sack - you still look pretty (whatever you play with 😻)
Yes, tried to interpret it in that way ;) that whatever instrument I play it will be nice
So, wearing a sack maybe haha, I should try ;)
btw, do you have some spare instrument you don't actually play? ;D It can't be true challenge is open for musicians and non-musicians too :))) Maybe for cats too ;)
I have accepted the challenge and this weekend I will do mine and tag you along with it. Just don't laugh too much when I talk on the instrument I chose😁🤭
Wohooo, great !! Don't forget to tell your room-mate too ;))) maybe he would like to participate too !!
This is all for bringing fun and learning in the same post @mayorkeys , so if I would laugh (smile), I would do it because you did a good job!
I am glad you accepted the challenge!!! 👏👏
I will surely Inform him by tagging him here also @starstrings01
smile ;)
I wish we can jam on piano together online here somedays
When I read the title I knew what was this post about and that made me happy because it came from our conversation. Of course, I would have liked to see you go further, but taking your picture is a first step. Now I look forward to the next ones.
I really like the idea of the challenge, and yes... There are many, many instruments I don't play 😂 There are a lot of instruments that I would have like to learn to play, but it's impossible to play all of them. The only difference with the trombone is that I bought one and even at my age I started to study how to play it! Although not so well as I'd like to.
Very nice all the info you added about the Oboe!
You knew? You have a good memory too, like me :)
This post maybe would not make sense if you would not see it and the photo, as it was because of that conversation in your post months ago :) Strange thing: I will not be able to have this oboe again in my hands until we have another opportunity to play together with that oboist. So, the chapter oboe and I is finished without a video of me playing it ;D BUT, I can respond one day to my own challenge,right? And if I have another instrument I don't play I can follow up :D
So, it means, you will participate in this challenge? Hurray (don't say me now that you would not 😂 )
Thanks, I tried to bring a bit of useful information too :) But, everyone can pick its own style and way how to bring a response, (if anyone 😇 ) but I hope to see or hear some , and you included! Thank you for stopping by, I know we all go so occupied with things, I appreciate your time for reading this and leaving your nice comment 👌
It will be interesting :-)
hehehe, yes, it will be interesting to see the posts that will respond to this challenge. I know you have an instrument, you don't play .... well... here you go, if you like to participate, welcome ;)
Btw, welcome back, saw your vacation is over! 😇
Many thanks ! ❤️
I can only participate by showing a photo of my daddy's balalaika 😂
I remember exactly the balalaika you mentioned ☺️
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Friend, how beautiful you see that instrument, he looks a lot, but the piano, you are the best, this activity will be interesting. Greetings and success.
Gracias amigo, es en realidad solo una broma, no voy a cambiar de instrumento... solamente he tomado la foto con el oboe. Pero, el reto de ver a los demás también haciendo una publicación mostrando un instrumento que no tocan será interesante :)
there! LOl now the comment and the upvote are there... i verified this time hahahahaha
Hhaha, you silly moonlight sonata girl!! Hahaha,verified 🤣