Author: jamesoboe
Date: 2009-04-04 10:20
Hi Alphons
I take your point. I don't know, however, if it's enough to prevent me from buying an instrument that I could get on with. I have only once heard of someone damaging a Buffet Greenline in the way you mentioned. Yet, I know of quite a number of players who have been using one for years, apparently without incident. Whether it be wood or man-made, the oboe should always be treated with respect. Funnily enough, the quality you outline of instruments getting better and better as they blow in, is the very quality that makes it such hard work for me to change over. New instruments have a tight, not to be confused with un-responsive, quality, and lack the colours at the beginning that they may grow to possess later. It's this absence of some of the spectrum of nuance that makes it complicated for me to choose a new instrument. The fact that so many of the main oboe makers' instruments also crack and warp, often due to use of immature, or inadequately seasoned, wood, is another stumbling block for me, also. I don't get this with Buffet Greenline. It feels fairly free blowing, and warping, or cracking are not such issues with them. One factor you neglected to mention, is that the player changes is response to becoming familiar with the instrument. So, I reckon that they Buffet Greenline will feel as if it blossoms, somewhat, in tone, as the player finds its resonance and particular qualities.
My needs are such, that I want an instrument to be working immediately, having to use it in concerts and recordings, etc.!
Nevertheless, I agree with you in principle, but would say that we all come at the problem of new oboe selection from often very different angles.
Regards
James
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