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 Re: Professional Oboe Options
Author: jhoyla 
Date:   2012-04-24 06:13

@Drew,

If you can find one I would recommend a plastic Loree C series, or at least a C series with a plastic top-joint. The sound is indistinguishable from the regular C-series instruments and they are made to the same high standards. In blind tests, NOBODY can tell the difference between a pro wooden instrument and an identical model in plastic.

Try it yourself - get two instruments and have a good oboist play the same passage on each instrument. Put 50 people in the room and have them each say which one they prefer.

Note that I'm not talking about the buffet greenline here; that is a composite instrument that may have some weakness around the middle tenon joint.

The advantage of a plastic instrument for a doubler is that you don't have to worry about cracking at all, whether it be due to temperature or humidity (a perennial hot-topic on this board). Your plastic instrument is always ready to play at a moments notice, you don't have to warm it in your hands (or armpit) before playing, you can dump it wet onto the oboe stand and move on to your 2nd instrument without worrying about swabbing it and smothering it in a warmer (though I would always swab if you have time).

I think these factors outweigh most of the other issues raised here.

J.
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