Author: heckelmaniac
Date: 2015-12-23 02:47
Actually, the discount price for a new Fox model 300 now is about $6200 (+ state sales tax in most states)...
In 1965, I purchased my first English horn (a top of the line, exquisite Chauvet) new for $600 from Linx and Long in NYC. Adjusted for inflation, that $600 would be about $4500 nowadays, enough to purchase perhaps a top joint of a new Loree or Howarth English horn. My best guess is that most of the increase in price is due to the rise in labor cost and cost of benefits.
Another way to look at it may be that in 1965 the artisans who made oboe instruments were paid next to nothing for their highly skilled labor.
It is easy to balk a paying [say] circa $10,000 for a phenomenal oboe, such as Hiniker, Puchner, Howarth, Loree Royal, Marigaux Altuglas, Moennig, Rigoutat model J, Fossati, but such an amount pales in comparison to what bassoonists routinely pay and expect to pay for a first class professional model bassoon. $30,000 and up is routine in the realm of new top of the line bassoons...
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Post Edited (2015-12-25 06:47)
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