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Re: Moennig cor anglais

Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-09-17 03:58

I bought a 1979 Marigaux oboe d'amore for £2000 back in 2007 from a prominent UK dealer - at that price I couldn't resist it and it was probably that price because it's full German spec., whereas a semi-auto one would most likely be at least twice the price. I had a 2nd 8ve touchpiece added and the crude thumbplate that was fitted was replaced with a much better one. It came with two original crooks plus a Howarth crook and had hardly been played in all that time. I think the price had come down as it was difficult to sell, but to someone that wanted one it was great.

There have been some poor choices made by education authorities when it came to buying instruments - most notably over my way a neighbouring county had bought an Amati cor back either in the '60s or '70s which was full German spec when the majority of players and students would have played thumbplate system oboes, so this fully auto cor with no thumbplate just ended up being neglected - not helped by the poor tuning it had.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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