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    | Author: mschmidt Date:   2019-01-05 10:04
 
 Find another teacher player who is willing to try out the instruments, and pay them if necessary. I did that when I was getting back into playing more and I'm glad I did. I was used to sounding like I did on my previous oboes--which wasn't necessarily where I needed to go. It's not just about the reeds. More experienced players--pros if you can find them--can sense an instruments possibilities better than amateurs just picking up the instrument after an hiatus.
 
 (That said, I was able to pick out a pretty good English horn on my own, even though I hadn't played English horn before. I could tell what the not-so-great ones were, and the Lorée I ended up with turned out to be about as good as I could have hoped for. I was, perhaps, lucky.)
 
 Mike
 
 Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
 
 
 
 
 
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|  | Oboe? | 2019-01-05 04:45 |  
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|    | Re: Trialing oboes with the same reeds  new |  | mschmidt | 2019-01-05 10:04 |  
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