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 This oboist says you need to buy a new oboe every 2-5 years? What?
Author: Dutchy 
Date:   2011-10-16 02:42

I was just browsing around randomly on Youtube and I came across this video. And at about 3:00 she starts talking about how you can't keep playing the same oboe all your life, that after a couple of years the wood of the top joint at the reed well (quote) "wears out", that every 2 to 5 years your instrument will "blow out" (her words) and it won't play right. So--if you're a discriminating professional musician, is the implication here, since she refers to getting some small amount of resale value from her latest dud instrument, so it must still be playable, just not up to her high standards--you have to go buy another oboe.

Um, what? I have never, ever heard someone suggest that a wood oboe was somehow a disposable instrument, good only for a few years.

How does the wood of something you're blowing into--as opposed to, say, beating upon, or scratching something across--"wear out"?

Not that I'm ever remotely going to have the chance to buy an $8,000 Loree, but I'm sure not gonna continue fantasizing about it if it's only going to be good for less than the lifespan of an average good-quality used car, which I can also buy for the same $8,000.
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