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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2003/03

From: Oboehotty@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the day etc.
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 14:08:52 -0500

Actually, the Josef oboe from Oboeworks that was available was actually tried
by a close friend of mine for about three weeks. A wonderful oboe. The Josef
oboes have a very unique sound that is very focused, centered, and smooth.
The scale is wonderful on them. This particular oboe had "green" gold keys
with a grenadilla body. Very dark sounding, yet the sound was lively and
projected quite a bit. Almost reminded me of the Howarth sound, but more
refined and more "americanized" to fit darker sounding timbre preferences (if
that makes sense.) Overall, a great horn, but too expensive for her to buy
and not quite "out of this world" enough to give up her current loree.