Author: my58vw
Date: 2006-08-23 04:54
My oboe repair persons first question in regards to greenlines... what happened, did you break the upper tenon? This is known to be a very bad problem with the greenlines, and they always break the same way, at the top of the upper tenon by the body. Greenlines also have quite soft keywork that bends quite easy, an incident with the Bb and B keys bending inside the case forced me to get a better more solid case. RDG seems to get at least a few per year with broken tenons at the same spot.
No oboe player (including a variety of pros) I have played with have ever put their oboes in the case during break in rehersal. I can not be sure that this is a fluke, more of a flaw in the design of the greenline oboe itself. I have played with lorees, foxes, etc, and never had an issue, and have seen other instruments that have been dropped with significantly less damage.
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