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 Re: Professional Oboe Options
Author: jhoyla 
Date:   2012-05-07 12:24

@Drew,

[fair disclosure: I own a Marigaux]

Thanks for posting the link to that thread. I remember thinking at the time that the accusations were pretty outrageous, and then the president of Marigaux himself answered the accusations (certainly to my satisfaction) in great detail. The original poster removed his pictures and his post.

How sad that one bad experience hastily described here on the bboard has turned into an internet "fact" that "Marigauxs explode under pressure". Not so. And not specific to Marigaux.

All professional oboes have an area of weakness, that crowded area between the LH1 pad, OK1 and the trill-keys. Tone-holes, octave inserts, pillars are all crowded into approximately 2 square cm of area. We are talking about wood here, a natural material with a grain that expands and contracts with humidity and heat and has little tensile strength perpendicular to the grain.

No instrument makers will guarantee a top-joint "replacement" in the event of cracking. They guarantee a repair (usually for 1 year), and they will replace the joint only if repair is not feasible. Experiments with linings and composite materials exhibit a different set of problems. Plastic instruments are great but people expect plastic to be cheap, whereas the difference in cost to the manufacturer is that of a block of mozambique blackwood vs a block of plastic (a difference which is probably significantly less than 100 USD).

I have a Strasser-Marigaux with full professional keywork that I bought from a music store in Manchester, UK in ~1975. It still plays beautifully and it would suit you admirably. But I'm not selling.

J.
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