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Hard hose oboe?

Author: Eina Kari Rajesh
Date: 2014-08-27 16:22

Hi. Am a first time poster and here to seek your insights on the Chinese oboe.
I have gained a little proficiency on clarinet playing and decided to try on oboe. Hence, ordered a plastic oboe on ebay for a little over $200. The oboe is described as follows,

Features:
Treble Oboe
Tone / C tune
Professional grade musical instruments
Pronunciation smooth, accurate scale
Sound mellow, beautiful, beautiful
Main pipe: rigid hose, musical tone keys made using nickel copper and gold, silver plated surface
The new structure, with precision, the operation reflects agile, comfortable playing
Packaging: luggage, accessories: lubricants, cleaning cloth, screwdriver

I have read quite a few posts here and on other websites and also got visual description on a couple of oboe instructional videos. All these understandings made me to go for a cheap plastic oboe and get good reed to learn the basics and know the art of oboe playing.

And my question, is rigid hose oboe good enough for begginers? Will this make a decent instrument with good/expensive reeds? And can you give me any other suggestions on starting my self lessons avoiding/making any bad habits? And also please suggest reeds for this oboe, where cost is not a matter.

BTW, I would like to take grade exams, though only after grade 8 on clarinet, so I am not here just to have your opinion but to follow those ideas and suggestions as I did with clarinetBB.

Thank you in advance.
Cheers!

EKR

Post Edited (2014-08-27 16:47)

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