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Full conservatory Oboes...

Author: my58vw
Date: 2005-09-22 06:57

Hello all again...

As many of you might know I have been playing the oboe for about a month or so, and today I had my first lesson, it was great. My teacher was very enthused about my progress in a short amount of time and was very very helpful, and is sending me off with some intermediate solos to work on with the normal intermediate book stuff. (Me Happy!)

I have been playing about 1 - 1.5 hours per day lately and noticed an issue that came up, the lower notes below about an B /Bb (in the staff) to the G were nearly impossable to get to come out clean. We discoved that the previously fixed crack in the head joint area seemed to open back up , this time larger than before. The instrument is a rental and missing a few keys so I am just sending it back, no charge on it.

That leaves we with needing a new oboe. For the stuff that I am doing the teacher said you NEED a full conservatory oboe. Now a few of the brands she recomends are the fox, fassati and the yamaha. I play in lots of conditions that are not super favorable for oboe, and I do not know if I can get by with a wood instrument. I like the liarlee oboe I have and the 400W is full conservatory for 2000 new. Now I really like the 300 pro full conservatory fox oboe also, but it is 3500 new... a little out of my budget... i.e. no more than 3000.

The teacher recomended that I look at used instruments too, expecially in the fox.

Anyone have any sugestions?

Thanks

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