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Author: Mindy's Mom
Date: 2002-09-26 12:01
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=907939011
Sorry -- I don't know how to "link" the site -- this guy calls himself a technician yet he doesn't know the difference between a clarinet (I would assume -- no pictures and not a great description) mouthpiece and an oboe "mouthpiece". This is supposed to be very rare! Yah-- I can only guess why! LOL
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Author: Sandra F. H.
Date: 2002-09-26 12:41
This could be legitimate. Last year I bid on an oboe-like instrument that had a small mouthpiece and unavailable-type small reeds. It's an antique instrument. Sandra
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2002-09-26 12:44
This is a novelty item. It is an insertable piece that you stick into the staple receiver of an oboe that has a small single reed mouthpiece attached. You cut down an Eb clarinet reed and tie it on and it allows you to play an oboe body with a single reed. I have seen a carved wooden mouthpiece that fits into the oboe receiver and a mouthpiece on a crook/bocal similar to a cor anglais. Great novelty value. These things do exist.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-09-26 13:36
The aforementioned oboe mouthpieces do exist, they look like tiny clarinet mouthpieces, and used to be sold by some of the big mail-order retailers as useful for doublers whose primary instruments are single-reed.
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2002-09-26 13:51
There have been a few of these on eBay before. At least one by Chedeville. I don't remember what it sold for but it went pretty high. Actually, as I recall, they take Ab clarinet reeds -- available from Vandoren.
Best regards,
jnk
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Author: Mindy's Mom
Date: 2002-09-26 13:55
Interesting -- I guess you learn something new everyday!! Thanks for the info -- you guys are great -- I'm a pianist with oboe and clarinet kids! I just can't picture this and I wish his pictures would get up on the site -- oh well -- I'll take your word for it about what it is designed like and looks like --
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Author: d dow
Date: 2002-09-26 14:37
This happens all the time here on E bay!!!
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-09-26 14:53
The single reed oboe mouthpieces look like a miniature clarinet mouthpiece mounted on an oboe reed staple. Many years ago, I heard one played by an excellent oboist. It had a recognizably "oboe" sound (of course, on an oboe), but noticeably less good than a real oboe reed.
The one I saw took a really tiny reed, not much bigger than one side of an oboe reed. Even an Ab clarinet reed would have to be cut down a lot.
The Chedeville oboe mouthpiece on eBay a year or two ago sold for over $600. A couple of others have gone for around $100.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: William
Date: 2002-09-26 15:28
Yes--they are for real. I actually have a Chedeville #2 (France) oboe mouthpiece (as well as the ligature and mouthpiece cap) and an "no name" bassoon mouthpiece. They came to me with an old student grade oboe which now hangs on my wall as a decoration. Maybe I will get it "fixed up" and begin a new career with the resulting sound that would surely kill all small flying insects within a hundred foot diameter. Ah yes, the oboe--as played by me--as the preventive factor in the West Nile arena. Maybe Guy Legere could make a reed.................
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Author: ron b
Date: 2002-09-26 17:24
I've seen a couple of them used by oboists when marching. My impression was that they're okay that way 'for show' (nobody hears a marching oboist:), but not much good for anything else. For concert performance they always used their regular setup.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2002-09-26 19:54
Runyon apparently sells a single reed mouthpiece for the bassoon for about $35. The Heckel company literature said that they use or used a single reed mouthpiece during the tuning operations on their bassoons. However, no double reed player would wish to perform on these rare items.
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Author: Carl L
Date: 2002-09-27 12:27
....and I play a double-mouthpieced Mirafone called a "twoba"...
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Author: Brent
Date: 2002-09-27 18:15
Supposing there were four of you, Carl, and you were last in line. You'd then be a "twoba four"! Wooden that be amusing...
I'd say i'm sorry, but i'd be lying...
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Author: JMcAulay
Date: 2002-09-28 16:01
Ken Shaw: I share your recollection of an oboe mouthpiece no wider than a standard oboe reed. The skinny little thing required a reed made just for it and nothing else.
ron b: A marching oboist can be heard quite well if he/she plays a big clinker.
Regards,
John
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