Author: hautbois francais
Date: 2010-06-17 23:44
Cjwright:
I just joined the board, so what are the search fields that I should use to get your comments on the Laubin oboe ?
Alternatively, a short, frank and candid synopsis on the laubin oboe would be very much appreciated, other that it is a great and quite expensive oboe to buy. I am looking for a technical synopsis.
I live in a hot and humid area and i dont think i will have any problems with cracking. My 40 year old Hans Kreul has not cracked and similarly my 11 year old Rigoutat is in good shape. Although, with the all the rumors about the Marigaux, unfortunately, I had traded that in for my Rigoutat. I had that for about 15 years, and it didnt crack. The then new Loree was stolen, so I will never know.
Like I said, the Laubin would be my first US HAND made oboe. I am wondering if the workmanship is so perfect that it puts the machine made oboes to shame ? How about consistency from oboe to oboe ? Because Laubin will only send me ONE when my queue number is up. What they send me may not exactly suit my playing style or sound that I am looking for, and I may have to reject it on that basis. While a similar oboe shipped to someone else may be exact fit for me....then I will never know what I could have bought and owned. Or I can spend monies to ship it up and down to Laubin to get them to tweak it to exactly how I want it. Then, for about USD10k, that is a lot of WORK, and may not be any guarantee of success. This is the problem I face.
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