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From: "Bryan Cavitt" <heckel_lover@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Successor to Loree??
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:11:35 -0400

Can we take this subject to bassoons as well?? Does every top orchestra
have Heckels exclusively in the section, or are there now Fox (Chicago,
Minnesota) and Yamaha?? And will Takeda be next in the mix??

Bryan Cavitt
Bassoonist, Elkhart (IN) Municipal Band; Bassoon Dad

>From: Philip McKenzie <philclimb1@-----.com>
>Reply-To: doublereed@-----.org
>To: doublereed@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [DR-L] Young ASO Principal Oboist Rejects Lorée
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
>the end of the virtual loree monopoly is well underway. buying a serious
>instrument is largely teacher influenced. even with a crack in the damn
>from covey and laubin and others for a generation, the change has been slow
>to come. yamaha has fought against the perception of being a mass marketer
>of the solid but uninspired instrument. the market is so thin and the
>decision process so arcane. that's why it has taken so long. the
>monopoly-esque situation in america will break down and the best of
>instruments will be manufactured in china and then maybe malaysia and then
>maybe even viet nam. and the price will drop. the recent discussion of
>bassoon manufacturer quality seems to indicate that the instrument is
>further down this road. perhaps its because the egregious prices of heckel
>beg for competitors.
>
>i would quibble with harold on a small point that these competitors are
>creating mere copies. i'd say that artisans outside of france are
>responding to highly demaning artists and successfully creating
>alternatives with improvements to what was once the best available product.
>
>Philip McKenzie
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: HAROLD <harold@-----.br>
>To: doublereed@-----.org
>Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:04:57 AM
>Subject: [DR-L] Young ASO Principal Oboist Rejects Lorée
>
>
>Is this the beginning of the end for our French "friends"who have supploied
>us with fine oboes for so many years?Copies of their products being made in
>Japan ...and eventually China to invade the USand the rest of the world?
>That's progress!!!
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>To: <doublereed@-----.org>
>Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:23 AM
>Subject: Re: [DR-L] Young ASO Principal Oboist Rejects Lorée
>
>
> > Dear List,
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
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>somewhere
> > in
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>that
> > she
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> > sure
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