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Re: Time to upgrade???

Author: Jeltsin
Date: 2012-11-28 08:28

I too started as a flute player, actually I started as a baritone singer.
Today I have three oboes but no English Horn, two professioal oboes and one intermediate.
I don´t think it´s a rule that a professional oboe sounds better than an intermedite oboe, in my case I can get a better sound from my intermedite oboe than from my professional oboes, but not always because the intermediate oboe is very reed-sensitive so it happends only one or two days during a month. I had one of those days together with my teacher a couple of weeks ago and I not sure how many times my teacher pointed out how beautiful the oboe sounded.
An other example how good the the intermediate oboe is that it is possible to play an A on it without using the third octave kay, that´s impossible with my other oboes (wasn´t Laubin that said that a good oboe doesn´t need a third octave key).
One of my professional oboes is a Rigoutat and it is very easy to play on because it just suit my hands perfectly. I even use the banana key on it. Why can´t every manufacture place the banana key close to the other keys when Rigoutat can.

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