fivemack ([info]fivemack) wrote,
2009-02-25 22:44:00
Poll #1355578 A gentleman practices the oboe
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

A gentleman practices the oboe

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Before work on weekday mornings
0 (0.0%)
During his lunch hour
0 (0.0%)
Straight after coming back from work on a weekday
12 (31.6%)
After 8:30pm on a weeknight
1 (2.6%)
At 9pm on a Saturday
0 (0.0%)
At 9am on a Sunday
0 (0.0%)
At 9pm on a Sunday
0 (0.0%)
No gentleman would practise the oboe
3 (7.9%)
No gentleman would be seen dead with an oboe
1 (2.6%)

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  • 11 comments

[info]tea_cantata

February 25 2009, 22:51:22 UTC 3 years ago

To practice beforehand would ruin the fun!

[info]hatam_soferet

February 26 2009, 17:00:47 UTC 3 years ago

He's not foreign!

[info]slrose

February 25 2009, 23:17:55 UTC 3 years ago

You didn't offer 'in a sound-proof practice room' as an option.

Of course if the gentleman is very good with the oboe, exceptions can be made.

[info]fivemack

February 26 2009, 11:01:04 UTC 3 years ago Edited:  February 26 2009, 11:03:42 UTC

Sadly, whilst my house has a spare-ish room which would make a fine dining room, a reasonable workshop or a mediocre guinea-pig farm, it won't be practical to sound-proof it.

This particular gentleman has been instructed to play repeated very high notes very loudly and for long periods, to check that he can pitch them stably and correctly (and to arrange the correct setting of the E-flat de-squeaking screw), and this seems a form of oboe practice absolutely optimised for the vexation of neighbours.

[info]simont

February 26 2009, 00:50:41 UTC 3 years ago

because someone's got to

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the oboe – but doesn't. :-)

[info]lnr

February 26 2009, 09:36:05 UTC 3 years ago

Are oboes loud enough to be heard next door? I wouldn't practice my cornet after about 9 on a weekday or 10 at the weekend (earlier if neighbours had children). And not before 10 at the weekend or 9 during the week.

[info]fivemack

February 26 2009, 11:03:22 UTC 3 years ago

I'm not sure how loud oboes are, I should check at my next party by proceeding next door, playing the oboe, and seeing how loudly the guests complain.

[info]aldabra

February 26 2009, 11:36:27 UTC 3 years ago

You leave out early afternoon at weekends, which I would have preferred over any of those.

Also, you're near the Histon Rec, aren't you? You could probably be inaudible from a distance in the middle of that.

[info]fivemack

February 26 2009, 23:19:16 UTC 3 years ago

I assumed that anyone thinking it incivil to practice the oboe on weekend afternoons would have such anti-hautbotic tendencies as to pick one of the last two options ...

Oboes are fragile and the Histon Rec not guaranteed sufficiently lout-free.

[info]jiggery_pokery

February 26 2009, 12:30:23 UTC 3 years ago

I am really surprised that people think that it would be ungentlemanly to practice at any of the times listed. After 10:30pm would be pushing it. Before 7am would be pushing it. Other than that, unless you know you have thin walls, not even close to being inconsiderate.

Am I really out of line on this one?

[info]martin_wisse

February 26 2009, 21:37:30 UTC 3 years ago

That's no oboe, that's my fife!
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