Author: vboboe
Date: 2005-07-22 00:18
Just to raise the ante on this discussion a bit ... two thoughts
1 . Does plastic blow out?
Maybe, maybe not, but guess is that plastic much more subject to melt-downs from heat exposure so this might be quite important for plastic lined upper joints
saw all plastic basic student oboe not long ago with a real ocean wave formation inside the bore, vertical and some semi-horizontal ripples around some toneholes, as viewed inside pipe, quite a sight to behold, no i'm not on meds or anything else
... funny thing was, sounded reasonably pleasant, even mellow, for a plastic oboe, all notes in two octaves were there and none of them distorted (too sharp too flat etc) ... you'd think so, wouldn't you? ... quite OK for a beginner band student to play, really weird huh? Maybe curvilinear wave formation improves plastic bores???
2. So maybe wood blow-out reputation is more like the old lady who swallowed a fly, spider, bird, cat, etc?
... or as another post said, maybe wood curing process has a lot to do with how well wood oboes stand up to high pressure playing
... one could also hypothesize whether tree wood-fibre density has varied over the years, s'pose more recent (decades to half-centuries plus) growth rings are softer than much older growth rings, what with planetary warming super-charging growth rates, higher CO2, lower O2, more wide-spread atmospheric, rain & soil pollutants interfering with tree metabolic biochemistry, etc. maybe younger rings are less densely built ... and this reputation for wood oboes blowing out is based on a higher proportion of those made with younger grade b wood?
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