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Re: selmer 104 or fox 300?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2017-05-06 08:26

Is there such a thing as an American bore when Loree is the most popular make in the US and the majority of oboes built in the US are built to the Loree design?

Some reeds work better on some instruments than others - I had someone a little while back bring their Marigaux 901 over to me as the F played with the keyed fingering was really wild. I closed the F key down which stabilised it. Then a few weeks or so late they came back as the F was stuffy, so I opened it back to how it was and it was fine. So different reeds - even those of the same style - can have an effect on how an instrument responds.

This is why the oboe is such a temperamental instrument - if the reed isn't right, it will give you nothing but grief.

But there are oboes with dodgy bores that won't play well - Amati (Artia/Lignatone) and later B&H Regent oboes to name a couple have serious bore problems where the top joint bore is too wide, so they're unstable from low E downwards. I started out on a Regent oboe when I was 14 and put up with it for two years until one day it fell over and snapped in half. I wasn't sorry about that at all. But then I tried a Marigaux 901 around ten years later and only then did I realise the problem was with the oboe I had and not myself. So I took it up again and bought a Yamaha 821TP to learn on which gave me far more confidence than that crappy B&H Reject thing ever could.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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