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Author: ode2joc
Date: 2014-07-30 05:55
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I have an opportunity to purchase an oboe for next to nothing. It is a Linton serial number N4940. I am told it is 55 years old. I have been trying to do some internet research on Linton oboes and I can't find much on Lintons, or a serial number database. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about old Linton oboes?
This will be my first oboe. I am a clarinet player. As of now, I am not looking to very seriously play oboe, just some fiddling around here and there and potentially play in a community band.
I have attached a picture below of the oboe. As I said, I am a clarinet player and don't know much about the key-work of oboes. Does the key-work appear to be sufficient?
Any advice or tips are appreciated!
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Jocelyn
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Author: cjwright
Date: 2014-07-30 08:22
The keywork is a ring system.
If you have a chance to purchase it for nothing, then I'd take it for nothing.
If you have to spend money for it, I wouldn't pay for it.
1. You won't get your money back. Lintons are a student model instrument. The bore (shape of the wood inside) is what's most important, and Lintons aren't great.
2. It's 55 years old, and there's probably a dozen other mechanical problems with the pads and silver work, which could easily run $500-$1000 if you want it fixed correctly. It's like accepting a 55 year old car, but also knowing you'll need new gaskets, struts, shocks, tires, plugs, fluids, paint, electrical wiring, etc. etc.
Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but just want to warn you of your possible investment.
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Author: JRC
Date: 2014-07-30 23:42
I would spend a couple hundreds dollars to make this playable. Even though it is not a good quality instrument and neither is it professional model, it would play.. more or less in tune. After awhile, you would learn to play this thing in tune. For a starter, it is not bad to have a intrument that plays for a couple hundreds dollars.
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2014-08-09 21:56
Oh, my, my, my, my, my! What Cooper said. Unless someone wants to give it away and you have a fondness for impossible causes.
You would be looking at quite a lot of repair work, to end up with a marginal instrument at best. (Incomplete keywork, open holes, student model, very old.) Even for noodling around, you can do better.
Nothing wrong with Lintons as noodling around oboes. I started on a Linton I got off "the auction site" for something like $275, in playing condition. It was plastic, looked like it had been left for a long time near a heat source (bubbles in the plastic!), but doggone, it played. It really did. Should've kept it!
Susan
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