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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-02-12 17:30
Joe -
Pan American clarinets stink on ice. It's hard to imagine their oboes would be any better. Also, it appears to be made of the light-colored lamiante that falls apart after minimal use. I'd stay away.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Joe O'Kelly
Date: 2002-02-12 17:36
Don't worry, I already have some great clarinets and an oboe so I don't plan to bid on it. If anything it would make a very nice looking lamp.
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-02-12 21:06
Perhaps if one were to run over it with a steamroller it would make a nice sun catcher?
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Author: willie
Date: 2002-02-13 05:26
I have an old C.G. Conn oboe with the same keywork and the brass emblem on the bell. Though it is stamped (faintly) with the C. G. Conn logo, on the backside are numbers in the old French style font prceded by more numbers in an American style font and not well done. I did find one just like it on e-Bay made by Henry Farney so I suspect some or all their oboes may have been French made stencils.
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Author: Dee
Date: 2002-02-13 12:13
I wouldn't make it into a lamp but rather just use it as a beautiful display piece in its own right.
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Author: Sandra F. H.
Date: 2002-02-13 13:49
I saw this oboe on ebay, too. Yes, the rosewood looks good--that is, from the photo, but I'd rather buy a solid rosewood oboe or clarinet that a pretty laminate that may fall apart!
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-02-13 15:53
David et al - This "wood' is neither rosewood or redwood. It ,as Ken said , is the same laminated wood used on Conn's beautiful-but-poor clarinets in the 40's, very subject to de-lamination, which may have been why it was banded. It, IMHO, was a very poor buy except for display, being of open-hole, simple system character. Cavaet Emptor. Don
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Author: Wes
Date: 2002-02-13 17:49
Conn oboes I've tried have not been good. However, I attended a seminar given by the first oboe of the Philadelphia orchestra. He admitted to having used a bell from a Pan American oboe on his fine French instrument to help raise the low C#. It may have been a temporary action. Although neither of these oboes could be expected to be used for playing in modern groups, they may be quite attractive to oboe collectors.
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