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Re: Any good oboe dealers in TX, OK, AR

Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2014-05-18 08:53

I tried every Howarth in their booth and even managed to play on a couple folks brought to the sight-reading sessions. I refer to IDRS in AZ a few years ago.

With the exception of the desert drying things out quickly and causing a few adjustment issues for instruments from more humid places, which were easily and quickly fixed by the Howarth folks on the spot, I would have/could have performed on them the same day. I do not know their various models but whatever they were, I was really impressed. (Reformed former Loree player/bigot.)

But that is also true of a few other oboes I tired.

Only the student models of other makers were something I'd reject.

I might even consider a fully synthetic oboe. The couple I tried were great.

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