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Re: Looking for an oboe, need help!

Author: vboboe
Date: 2009-02-12 23:49

... since you've been playing for 12 yrs already, why not treat yourself to a full conservatory oboe? if you want to further develop your technical fingering skills, or do elaborate jazz improv work in the future, or need all the available trills for more challenging music, get full conservatory

Will you be playing outdoors with it?

If so the resin plastic Fox 300 (full conservatory model) is a versatile indoor-outdoor option, but, model 300 is not so readily available second-hand as the more popular intermediate student model 330

make sure whatever used model you're interested in is fitted with the forked F resonance vent as well as the Left F key, not all makes & models are fitted with the resonance vent, but, if you're already very skilled at using Eb with forked F, doesn't matter

the full conservatory 3rd 8ve key will definitely help get the higher notes (High E up) more easily, very useful for jazz improvs, or if you ever have to fill in by playing directly off a flute melody part with many consecutive bars of high ledgers -- but if you only expect to see an occasional High E or F in the music you'll be doing, don't need 3rd 8ve

beginner & intermediate (Fox 333 and 330) are OK for noodling along at average non-pro community level -- which don't usually rise above level 6 and more usually hovers around level 4, thus unlikely to ever need the less common trills -- so if you just want to tootle once or twice a week easily within your current playing skill level and don't need to commit to doing any serious practice in between, then go for an intermediate instrument, playing demands will never go beyond the mechanism provided

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