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 Do older wooden oboes hold their tune?
Author: bechstein 
Date:   2010-08-13 23:31

I am close to arranging oboe lessons for my daughter who is 13 years old and will be joining the grade 8 junior band in her first year in high school. She has played oboe for one year and would like to continue. I now need to find her a suitable oboe. We live in the North West Coast.

As some of you may know from my earlier posts I have had many words of advice shared with me on this forum to help with our decision as to how to buy an oboe and the type of oboe we should be looking for. Thank you.

I now have a list of several teachers in my area and when I contacted one of the teachers they suggested to stay away from older wooden oboes because of tuning issues. I was a little surprised by this comment because of the many posts I've read about oboe players happily playing their older wooden oboes. This teacher suggested that it would be better to find a newer oboe (such as a plastic one) than to buy an older wooden oboe because older wooden oboe often cannot keep their tune. How much truth is there to this opinion? Now I am not going to bounce one persons opinion off another to cause any unnecessary disagreement but I would like to know some truths so that I don't risk venturing off in the wrong direction buying an oboe that never stays in tune.

Because of my budget of approximately $700-$1200, plastic oboes are a good possibility (such as a Yamaha YOB-241) but it was the older wooden oboes that I was very interested in - until this comment warning me about tuning stability issues with older wooden oboes. I've read that wooden oboes will sound a little better but are a little more fragile but that shouldn't be too much of a problem as long as she doesn't drop the instrument I suppose.

And so my question is, in my search for an oboe should I avoid all older wooden oboes (even if they are rebuilt) due to a risk of buying one with tuning problems?


Before buying our oboe I will be sure to contact these recommended dealers for advice:

www.hannahsoboes.com
www.norapost.com
http://www.oboes.us

I might also contact "Skip Hoitt Hoittoboes". Any recommendations?

Here are some oboes I have considered recently:
Yamaha YOB-241
Fox (such as a model 333)
Oboe Buffet Crampon (I saw one made of grenadilla wood close to my home here on the west Coast used for $1000)
Lesher (saw a used older wooden Lesher for sale in my area as well - but will wait for opinion of a teacher on this one.)
Cabart oboe (older model. this model was made before Cabart was bought by Loree)


Should I eliminate all older wooden oboes from my list?
I will be contacting the above mentioned dealers and just take their advice but should I mention that I am not interested in any older wooden oboes?

Thank you,
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bechstein 2010-08-13 23:31 
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cjwright 2010-08-14 19:52 
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bechstein 2010-08-15 01:58 
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heckelmaniac 2010-08-25 07:21 
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bechstein 2010-08-15 05:51 
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