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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 2007/06

From: philfrei@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Elizabeth Koch, ASO Principal Oboe
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:07:57 -0400


From Ed Flowers:
>>The new Lorees all had a crisp sound
that the broken-in oboes didn't have. You'd have to guess as to how
they
would ultimately sound once broken in, but still, you could get a
pretty
good idea of how they would end up sounding.<<

Perhaps this "crispness" which you describe, which eventually
disappears, is what some pros are missing when they call an oboe "blown
out." How long does it take, in your estimation, for an oboe to "break
in"? A week or two? Months? A year? If a year or more, then that is
starting to get in a range where it might have some sort of correlation
to the "blown out" phenomena that so many of us are having trouble
accepting as being more than a figment of imagination.

- Phil Freihofner
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