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Re: Old oboe?

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-08-07 22:18

How much?

I'm not convinced it's old at all, but it's really intriguing. It reminds me of those fife replicas (that actually play) that you can buy at old Fort-Henry (around Toronto). They were actually sold in music stores too: the idea was to reproduce at very reduced cost instruments from the days of colonization.

This instrument does not loot like that at all. Old oboes had tiny finger holes because the bores were also very small. The keywork looks like it was made with modern tools: but you need this confirmed by ChrisP and/or Heckelmaniac.

The pear-shape bell does not mean d'amore (unless you consider the name "d'amore bell" which I have seen in books). Generally, this looks like an introduction instrument and I'm not sure it's meant to be played with our very small modern oboe reeds.

If it is what I think, I really love these "simple" instruments that are really designed for simple harmony repertoire so anyone can more easily play almost anything from traditional repertoires (including the very speedy Irish and French gigues). If I weren't saving for a d'amore, I'd buy it right now!

I would ask around Germany, Spain, Romnia and Hungary if such instruments are still part of the folklore: it's amazing how much their "amateur" instrumentation is so many times richer than ours.... our "freedom" of commercial capitalism appears to have resulted in a significant loss of culture!

MAY I POST THESE PICTURES ON FACEBOOK? There are a couple of international double reed groups that might know something about it.

SUPER-COOL!

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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