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Author: heckelmaniac
Date: 2013-08-23 02:22
I have had many an odd oboe family instrument come across my desk over the years. However, the oboe I acquired today is likely the strangest I have ever had.
This oboe is a fake Laubin. I have come across "heaps" of fake Lorees oboes and English horns, though this is the first fake Laubin.
I can not pin down the maker. Likely 1960s
None of the key patterns match Laubin, or Kreul (though the upper joint has a wall thickness near identical to the heavy pattern Kreul), Malerne, Bulgheroni, or any of the "usual suspects." Trademark stamps at first glance seem "Laubinesque," though on close examination, not even close to being a good forgery. This oboe has been jerry-rigged to the maximum- imagine Rube Goldberg as a junior high school shop student on acid. The F# touch is from a Bulgheroni oboe. Has left F and left C# above the left Eb, B, Bb cluster for the left little finger. Backwards though- left F is "inboard," left C# "outboard." The F touch key ("E# key") has a lever underneath that connects to the Eb key-cup and raises it slightly - making a secondary (standard fingering) F resonance. Rollers on low B & Bb, and on the right little finger cluster. Even the E touch has a custom offset plate
This instrument also has a secondary C# resonance key.
3rd octave key not original. Despite being in cosmetically and mechanically deplorable condition, it for sure plays well. Somewhat akin to a Howarth XL with respect to playing characteristics. Supposedly, this oboe originally belonged to a professional in Glendale, California back in the 1960s...
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