Author: cjwright
Date: 2008-08-02 07:28
I have absolutely no idea what a "sweet tone" means. Can you quantify this idea or give a comparison (i.e. such and such sounds sweeter than such and such on recording A.) to give us an answer? (Or perhaps use the oboe sound gallery.)
Also, this whole idea of "reed-friendly" is very generic, and I think one needs to specify whether an oboe is "reed friendly" in the sense of scale/intonation, tone, or response.
I don't know who started the idea that Loree's are "reed friendly", but I believe they are some of the single hardest oboes to make reeds for, specifically because the instruments are made for such flexibility that they require the most refined of reeds. I believe it was Peter Bowman (Principal oboe, St. Louis Symphony) that wrote in David Ledet's Reed Styles book that in order play on a Loree, one needs to be a master reedmaker, which was one of the reasons he played on Laubins. Granted, the book is quite old, but I think the tendancies are the same, and so it is no surprise that he still plays on Laubins.
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