Author: wrowand
Date: 2006-06-29 14:55
In response to <oboist>, if Lorees let you have better projection that's great. Other people may find that another brand of oboe works better for them and that's great too. I have owned and played many Lorees, one Marigaux that I picked out at the factory, a Laubin and a Yamaha and I have found that generally, given a few months of making reeds and playing on the oboe, that I get approximately the same tone on each of them. I think that generally, each oboist works to get the sound that's in his head -- so my advice to anyone looking for an oboe is to figure out what works for best you. For me right now, Yamahas have the most even tone quality and the best scale, but they have other aspects that aren't so good. And there are many players whom I greatly admire who play on other brands of oboe.
I agree with <doublereeder2>, look for all of those things, resistance, eveness of tone, good scale, etc. But remember that if you're playing on reeds that you made for one instrument they might not be the best reeds for another brand. I find that the reeds that work on my Loree are perfectly adequate, though not ideal, for my Yamaha, but the reeds that play best for the Yamaha make the Loree sound very uneven. Your mileage may vary.
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