Author: cjwright
Date: 2009-08-24 05:01
To be more specific than simply stating "tradition" or "bias", I think it's worth pointing out that for some 80 years now, the American school has used Lorees and have taught not only the "Loree sound", but taught students how to make reeds on Lorees, how to set gougers to Lorees, and how to get proper intonation on Lorees.
I do not state this because I am biased to Lorees, (in fact for the past year, I have been Loree-less,) but rather that I know that many of the old-timers simply didn't have the access to other imported models in order meriting consideration to play on them full-time. Realistically, 15 years ago there weren't nearly the number of brands as readily available to us as there are now.
It is also worthy to note however that there are some that did indeed use other brands. If you look through the Ledet "Oboe Reed Styles" book, you will notice a few (Angelucci comes to mind) who played other brands that aren't as common today such as Gordet, while Peter Bowman did, and still does, play a Laubin.
Even John de Lancie, Tabuteau's protege and successor in the Philadelphia Orchestra was known to use a Loree topjoint with a Kohlert bottom joint or a Loree top and bottom joint with a Kohlert Bell. Eventually, Richard Woodhams acquired some of those bells, and I know the Yamaha 841 bell was designed after a Kohlert bell.
So there ya go. Just a bit of history.
Cooper
http://cooperwrightreeds.com/
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