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Re: Good Oboe For Beginner

Author: sylvangale
Date: 2009-09-07 18:51

In the past I had noted that a bandmate picked up a Barrington and he sounded quite good on it, but it eventually gave him spring troubles. The Barringon like many other badly made Chinese instruments have mechanisms that give out. The springs lose their springiness the keys eventually stop moving.

I'll add that you should avoid the Yamaha 221 series, it's a nasty ill designed oboe.

Only reliable oboe available under $1000 is the Selmer, then under $2000 is a Fox.

Yamahas newer 440 series is supposed to have adopted the bore of their professional series of oboes. However they are newer and you won't find them under $2k, but then you'd want to compare it to the Fox 330 to see if it is any better or not.

I had a teacher tell me that she thought that Fox and Yamahas were both crap, that it would be better to save your money to start off a kid on a Selmer and move them up to a used professional oboe (which run around $3000).

Though I think the move up to an intermediate oboe provides a noticeable improvement and then the move to a professional is an even more noticeable improvement. If you stick to used instruments in the process you don't really lose anything as you can re-sell used instruments at little loss.

So you have 3 routes:
Selmer->Fox->Professional: ~$5500
Fox->Professional: ~$5000
Selmer->Professional: ~$3500

Or maybe:
Selmer->Quit oboe: $500
Fox->Quit oboe: $2000
Professional->Quit oboe: $3000

;)

♫ Stephen K.

Post Edited (2009-09-07 18:52)

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