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Author: mls
Date: 2003-10-12 15:21
I'm just wondering, does anyone else have a Yamaha professional model oboe? If so, how do you like it, and do they need to be repaired a lot? I have 2 of them, and every other week one of them needs to be repaired. They're always breaking down! Does anyone else have this problem, or did I just get the 2 bad ones?
And, in your opinion, what is the best oboe?
Thanks!
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Author: the_oboist
Date: 2003-10-12 19:04
I don't have a professional model. But I do have a intermediate Yamaha oboe. I've had it for almost three years now and have had to have maybe two repairs in all of that time. My guess is that you just got two bad ones or there's something that isn't getting fixed and is causing the other problems.
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Author: musikalgrl2
Date: 2003-10-12 21:26
i don't have professional model oboes... and i don't play the oboe... but i do have a lot of other Yamaha instruments, and they are extreamly well made and very rarely do they have to go in for repairs. So my guess would be that you just got a couple of bad oboes. Either that or the people who are fixing them aren't fixing them very well.
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Author: sömeone
Date: 2003-10-13 09:24
That doesn't sound like it will likely happen.
I've been playing on the school's yamaha intermediate 411 for a year now.
The former player told me that the instrumetn has never gone for a repair before and was bought on 1997.
The most recent fault was only the minor cork failure in the low Bb key pad. Not a big problem and didn't effect my playing. Well this year end i'm gonna take it to a repairman for service though. You can never take the risk of facing huge problems in the future and to fix it by then.
Anyway what is the pro model's problem u r having?
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Author: tiffany
Date: 2003-10-13 10:45
although i don't own a yamaha oboe,but i would recommend a british brand oboe Howarth
I own a S45C professional model...notes below low D are very easy to play....it has very smooth and expressive sound.I cannot say it is 'the best', but in my personal opinion, it is a really good one.
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Author: mls
Date: 2003-10-13 20:48
The one I just took in recently I couldn't get a single sound out of it, but if I played the exact same way and used the same reed on the other one it came out fine. Last I heard, they had no clue what the problem could be.
The same thing happened to the same one about 5 months ago. They couldn't figure out what was wrong, so they just gave me new wood with the same keys. Doesn't really make much sense, but it's the school's.
The other one plays good at the moment, though, and in class I'm using a Yamaha Intermediate, and I'm having no problems at all.
Did anybody else ever have trouble getting a single sound out, assuming you've been playing for awhile? How did you fix it? Thanks!
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Author: the_oboist
Date: 2003-10-13 22:05
I had my oboe bore oiled when it wasn't playing and it made a dramatic difference. Some don't believe in bore oiling instruments, but in the case of my Yamaha intermediate 411 oboe it worked.
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Author: sömeone
Date: 2003-10-14 06:37
not quite sure about that
Isn't bore oiling a must for wood instruments?
i bore oil the school's yamaha 411 every 2 weeks or so.
If u can't even get a sound to come out, that must be very serious, but who knows it may only even be saliva blockage in the reed. A crack perhaps? Well good luck anyways.
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