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Re: oboe system

Author: triplereed
Date: 2008-06-30 14:20

Last but not least, never forget the Prestini system!

This spinoff from the Gillet A6 "Conservatoire", developed by the famed Italian oboist Giuseppe Prestini, has been the standard system here in Italy until the last two or three decades.

It's basically a Gillet with covered keys and the usual trills; the main difference is that the low B key is is transferred from the left pinky to the right thumb. Its touchpiece is actually shaped like the first speaker's, and faces it from beneath the top-to-middle joint. To the leftover touchpiece from the left pinky 'butterfly' group is then assigned a very useful left C# duplicate, thus eliminating the auxiliary «banana key» which allows thre low C / C# trill on the commoner Conservatoire oboes.

The Prestini system has its pros and cons. Any opinion on them?

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