Doublereed Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2005/06

From: George Young <george_young@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] woodhams - mozart
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:50:33 -0400

Rhondda,

I believe it's known that Mr. Woodhams often plays a
Yamaha YOB-841 oboe made of kingwood (aka violetwood).
Might it be that's what he was telling you? Kingwood
and grenadilla are are the standard order wood options
for this Yamaha model.

George Young

--- Rhondda May <rmay@-----.com> wrote:

> hi all,
>
> so last night a packed hall in hong kong heard dick
> woodhams play the
> mozart concerto.
> even from my seat behind the orchestra, he sounded
> fabulous. and he's
> using a "red-wood" yamaha oboe. really beautiful,
> colorful,
> expressive, gorgeous playing.
>
> i asked him afterwards about the oboe and he called
> it "canewood" [??]
> - dunno what this is but it's certainly worth a surf
> or two to
> discover.

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