Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-04-24 19:27
I dread to think!
The oboe cost me £450 off eBay, though the extra keywork plus the full overhaul is most likely to be around the cost of a new one of the same model if I added it all up (although a new one of the same model won't have all the extras). I might itemise it to see what the real cost would've been if I had it done by someone else - and just be glad I can do the work myself!
But it is handy to have a plastic back-up instrument where you wouldn't want to risk any harm to a wooden one - such as playing in cold churches or cathedrals, going abroad to cold, wet, dry or humid climates, playing outdoors or on bandstands in the evening when it's getting chilly, playing on the lawn at garden parties in the blazing sun, playing in quintets in draughty hallways, etc.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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