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Re: Need advice for oboe

Author: directcj
Date: 2007-10-02 05:01

Just a follow-up to all who's been reading this.
After a long ardous process and trying at home at least 3 oboes and trying at RDG and Michelle Forrest more oboes (new and used) -

We eventually purchased an oboe from Hannah's Oboe. She essentially offered the best oboe at the price range we were comfortable with $3-$4k. Bottom line was that she was quite accomodating, and put us at ease with the purchase - she even offered to meet somewhere as she was planning to come to LA (to watch Dodgers beat Diamondbacks ;-0 )

This is not to say that we wouldn't have bought from RDG and Michelle Forrest - just that Hannah had the best deal for us based on the age and condition of the oboe.

We were quite fortunate i think to have 2 good local sources for trying out oboes as well as a source of expertise. In the end trying out as many oboes as possible gave us the confidence in picking which oboe to buy.

BTW, the oboe we bought was a Loree, AK+3 model

One word of advice for those in the same predicament - have a method for trying out the oboes, there was a recent post which referred to an IDRS column. here's the link: http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/DR/DR14.3/DR14.3.Dunkel.Guide.html

unfortunately we didn't have this in the course of trying out oboes. as my daughter is still in 'training' , she didn't have a clue how to evaluate methodically other than playing a couple of scales, some measures (hi & low) and favorite passages.

directo

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