Author: oboesax
Date: 2012-04-28 15:45
I agree with drewsorensonmusic.
The sax-fingered oboe is not made well. It could be perhaps, but not enough people bought them for Loree to work on improving their sound.
My daughter, 16, plays oboe and alto sax as primary instruments; she also plays oboe gigs, works as a doubler and can play all the woodwinds. She played Paul Cohen’s sax-fingered oboe last year. It was a Loree oboe made in 1932. She found the sound quality to be far below her Loree oboe (2010) and her English horn (Loree 1942). Cohen told her that Loree didn’t make all that many, because people didn’t buy them, perhaps for some of the reasons other posters have mentioned, tradition, etc.
Of course sax fingerings are more ergonomically correct than oboe fingerings, but the two fingerings systems aren’t that different. As other posters have told you, learning the fingerings on the oboe are the least of your worries—the REED is 95% of the issue.
John Mack made his own reeds. He taught my daughter’s oboe teacher how to make them, and my daughter now knows the John Mack system of reed making. You can buy reeds these days, but you won’t be at the level of real oboe players.
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