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Author: JRC
Date: 2011-06-26 14:53
I am in the market for half-Boehm oboe and English horn.
Half-Boehm models, if you do not know what it is, has system 4 left hand and Boehm right hand fingerings with small tone holes. It should look like a modern thumb plate system oboe but with a covered little tone hole just above the F# finger (instead of just below).
If you happen to see one, please contact me at Joung.Cook@gmail.com.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-06-26 15:48
If you're after new instruments, contact any makers to see if they can do this as a special order for you. I've only ever seen half Boehm clarinets that were simple/Albert system but had Boehm layout for just the RH main action or the entire lower joint, but never any oboes or cors with this layout - used or new.
Where the F key normally lies, that will become the cross F# key as on clarinets and saxes. The split plate D#-E trill found on full Gillet conservatoires can be made as a single touchpiece with a hole through it (closed by the LH Eb touch) and it may need an Acton vent (as on post-'60s B&H 1010 and Reform Boehm clarinets) so F# is fully vented when played with the xxx|oxo fingering.
On cors it could also mean placing the E tonehole in its correct place slightly lower down the joint with the full sized tonehole, so the RH pinky cluster would be placed lower down the joint as well. Finger spacing won't be much of an issue due to the closer spacing of the toneholes.
Would you still have conservatoire action for Bb and C (by closing RH1) or go with thumbplate action for them?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: JRC
Date: 2011-06-26 16:03
1. So far I have no responses from Loree, Marigaux, Buffet, and few others after over a month. Howarth responded with 15,000 pounds estimate for an oboe. I do not think I can afford the price of new ones.
2. Modifying conservatoire model will take lots of work. That would cost as much.
3. According to the paper by Howe, Buffet, Sharpe, Loree, Malerne, had offered the model in the past. So I am hoping some of them survived and possibly available. Since I want to try the system as my main instrument for awhile, I want the instruments is playable, or made into playable condition.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2011-06-26 18:18
Yes, those old Boehm oboes are still around and I have some. However, they were built with thinner walls and a bore that promotes a brighter sound, not the way modern oboes are built. You also might find that they are less user friendly for fingering than you might like. I find the modern oboes easier to finger. There may not have been a modern oboe made with Boehm fingering.
Good luck!
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-06-26 20:07
I think £15,000 is way excessive for any oboe - custom built or not. Even £7,500 is excessive but is somewhere slightly nearer the mark.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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