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Re: Chauvet oboe

Author: Jim-o
Date: 2008-12-04 04:25

Thanks Mr. Wright and Sylvangale for your kind advice,

If my student wants to keep his oboe, I may pay to add just the Left F. I can cast the parts. The oboe helped him win first chair in All-District band. This model is an excellent student oboe by Ben Storch. I read Mr. Hurd and Mel Beimann and Lois Barton, plus a kind email from Mr. Martin Bebb. Then I gambled on an oboe by a master with a 1 year guarantee for only ~$380 from the Ohio Band Instrument Service. I added ~$500 for a shocked DSO English Hornist (Mr. Matthews)to rebuild it and ended up with a very pleasant (but expected) surprise. A master will refuse to make junk, even for kids. Storch was one. I was lucky, too . . . in a calculated way.

The oboe's value is in its sound and playability. There's little name recognition, unfortunately: Mr. Hurd has not sold the pro model that he has. Someone should call him for a trial! Mr. Martin Bebb and his harpist wife preferred his pro BW Chauvet to his fine Loree, which he sold off. He said that his forked F and regular F are amazing in all registers, same as with this model we have. There is only a C# issue with our student model.

Tell me this, y'all(I'm in Texas), would you be attached to an old oboe that plays and sounds really well? better than a friend's new pro Yamaha? better than the competition with new Buffet Crampons? Rigoutats? for cheap? I didn't have $2500 to give my 6th grader and the school stuff was unimaginable. No wonder they sell it as "impact resistant plastic."

Thanks for mentioning the Laubin, Cooper. I read that Storch got everything from Mr. Laubin. Makes sense: Wally Bhosys worked with Laubin, so his partner's oboes shared similarities. [I wonder where the reamers and tooling are, and what oboes the parts are similar to?]

You guys are all very helpful and knowledgeable. This board is an incredible public service.

Thx,
Jim S.

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