Jun 6, 2018 - LARILEE OBOE!NORESERVE! This auction is for a Larilee Oboe. The serial number is 13074 visible on both joints and on the bell. Disclaimer The opinions expressed below represent only my experience with various makes and models of oboe family instruments so far. Windows 365 vs office 2016. Please keep in mind that how an oboe “takes the air” is different, often vastly different, from player to player. “Your air” is not “my air,” “your scale” is not likely to be “my scale,” your compensations will differ from my compensations, your reed will not be my reed, and your own “personal resonance” will be different from anyone else's “personal resonance” when playing an oboe instrument. For many years past, collecting and trading oboe instruments, I have had opportunity to take on various makers to represent. I have declined all such opportunities. However, at the 2011 IDRS convention, I came across a make English horn that is in a league of its own, far superior to any other English horn by any other present day maker. The English horn I felt was (by far) the “best in show” at IRDS 2011 is by Puchner, and I have contracted to represent Puchner oboes, oboes d'amore, and English horns in North America. However, please know that my reviews of Puchner instruments below reflect my genuine assessments. A note about tuners – I will offer the advice of my late friend Wally Bhosys, oboist with the Metropolitan Opera in the 1950s–1970s. It is not possible to separate the observer from the observed when playing to an electronic tuner. Simply put, playing to a tuner will produce completely arbitrary results. The only use possible good use for a tuner would be to test the length of a reed or bocal to establish a comfortable A. Beyond this, trust your own ears. ![]() Preamble - A Primer on Wood The quality of wood found in many instruments offered by some major manufacturers nowadays seems to be of much poorer quality than wood found in instruments made [say] prior to 1990. Ati firepro drivers windows 10. Much of the wood presently used for mass produced wooden oboe instruments tends to be 'open' (coarse) grain, from young trees, and exceedingly prone to cracking, or even 'exploding.' Not only is much of the wood used nowadays for oboe production of lesser quality than in decades past, the wood is not truly 'seasoned.' 'Seasoning' oboes woods, according to usual convention, means that the wood is cut into billets, the billets then placed in an unheated warehouse or barn on stickers for air circulation for perhaps 10-20 years. After the initial seasoning process, the un-cracked, un-warped billets will be turned round, and a small pilot hole drilled completely through the pieces. Then the rounds will be set aside for perhaps (ideally) another 5 years or so. In this manner, the wood will be able to experience all the changes in temperature and humidity, and dry ever so slowly. After the rounds have seasoned, any cracked or warped pieces will (should) be discarded. Nowadays, some of the large oboe manufacturers do not have the luxury of seasoning the wood as in 'the old days.' A common practice nowadays is simply to dry the wood for a year or two in an insulated box ('kiln') at 125 degrees. In my estimation, this drying process is absolutely no substitute for seasoning wood! Drying wood IS part of the oboe manufacturing process, though only AFTER wood has been well seasoned. With wood being of such dubious quality nowadays, I am amazed that oboe manufacturers do not simply sleeve the upper joints of their instrument with PET polymer liners. Subject to change! OBOES AMATI - AVOID! ADLER - The model 6000 (French style) oboe is worth a look. Very well made. I prefer the model 6000 oboes made after 2010 A. Laubin's “second–line” of instruments. Laubin's specifications, finished by William Glover, voiced by Al Laubin. Good oboes for advanced students/ advanced amateurs. Song let it whip by dazz band. Somewhat bright (“sprightly)“ sound. Some 'ethereal,' some very good, some 'OK,' some indifferent. One of the best oboes ergonomically for oboists with small hands. BHOSYS (stencil) - Some 'OK,' some indifferent, some truly not so good at all. Stencil instruments, mostly Malerne. BUFFET - 'Orfeo' excellent instrument. Has solid metal tenon on upper joint composite material- cracking (rare) still possible 'Virtuoso' Composite or wood. Excellent instrument. Different bore from the 'Orfeo' Lacking left C# - in my estimation an oboe with this level of mechanical sophistication should truly have a left C# key. Also, the 'natural C' touch seems far too tiny to be of much use. The most recent wood professional model 3613 oboes tend to be excellent. Exquisite key-work.
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