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Author: huboboe
Date: 2009-12-10 06:03
My first good oboe in high school was an early Lorée made around 1905 for Cesare Addimando, a colleague of Tabuteau's and the Principal oboe of the newly formed San Francisco Symphony.
After he died in the middle '50's, my teacher, Raymond Dusté, bought it for me from his widow, and it was a huge step up from my student oboe!
It had an amazing bunch of keywork like I've never seen on any other instrument. (You're gonna love this, Chris, and I'll get to the low C in a moment...)
It had a Barret thumbplate and a semi-automatic octave key that allowed you to use it as an automatic system, but if you held the upper octave open, you could play the RH 5th harmonics.
It had a LH F key AND a LH C# key. It had rollers between the RH C and Eb keys.
And (Tah - Dah!) a block in front of the thumb rest that had a key nestled in it that allowed you to close the low C by squeezing your thumb.
It was a life saver the first time I played Bartok's 'BlueBeard's Castle' and had to play that low C/C# trill...
Anyway, my point is that that mechanism has been around and if you are willing to pay some lucky maker the price, I'm sure you can have it made.
PS: I sold that oboe in early college to help pay for a more modern Lorée, but I'd love to own it again. If anyone knows of it ( it's an early series GG- something) I'd love to hear from you...
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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kimber |
2009-11-13 23:55 |
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Chris P |
2009-11-14 07:37 |
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Gerry L |
2009-11-29 20:30 |
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cjwright |
2009-11-30 17:12 |
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huboboe |
2009-12-10 06:03 |
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