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 Vintage Howarth oboe - price ideas?
Author: alicemusician 
Date:   2020-06-29 20:18

Hi everyone. I have a vintage Howarth oboe - 1959, the model that preceded the S10. Any ideas of value? It is fully serviced and in excellent condition for a vintage model.
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 Re: Vintage Howarth oboe - price ideas?
Author: Chris P 
Date:   2020-06-30 16:49

Can you post a photo of it to be sure it's a genuine Howarth and not an Italian import made for Howarth. Some of them made as recently as the '80s have four figure serial numbers beginning with 1. They won't have 'British Made' or 'Made in England' anywhere on them if they're Italian imports, just the Howarth logo stamped on the bell and the serial number on the back of the joints.

They'll look like this:
https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/web.eu-central-1.sumra.net/1277713106_0.jpg

Genuine Howarth oboes from the '50s were usually handmade pro level models - the early S10 they were making from around that time is a conservatoire system oboe with nickel plated keywork with simple 8ve keys and no side G# key.

They were also importing Italian oboes which were basic thumbplate system with ring keys like this one:
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/360/0515/31/howarth-model-wood-open-hole-oboe_360_f1327cd3d3f498220eb7f804102b61fb.jpg

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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 Re: Vintage Howarth oboe - price ideas?
Author: alicemusician 
Date:   2020-06-30 17:50

This is such a helpful answer, thank you! I am a professional woodwind player but only on clarinet, sax and bassoon, so the oboe world is a bit complicated to me! It is currently in the service so I can't take a pic, but the logo was literally (including the new line for each word):

Howarth
Maker
London

It is plateau, not open holed.

I will have more details when it returns!

Alice
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