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 Re: Sad oboe in second-hand shop
Author: Dutchy 
Date:   2006-11-26 04:33

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it was some incredible rare, desired make :-))

Ain't no such thing in the world of oboes. Sorry. Even the top-drawer oboes are, comparatively speaking, fairly common and easy to obtain.

There aren't any incredibly rare and desirable collectible clarinets, either, are there?  ;)

And it's extremely unlikely that a Loree oboe would have ended up in a pawnshop. Can you imagine spotting a used Ferrari on the lot at Honest John's Bargain Cars? People who own them generally know what they're worth, and don't dump them, unless somebody died and their heirs cleared out their stuff wholesale (every oboist's nightmare--we all make sure our families know that "Mom's Oboe" isn't just another tootle-horn to donate to the Salvation Army when she passes on, it's WORTH MONEY.)

We can give you a list of well-known manufacturers (see below), but if the name on the oboe isn't one of those, that doesn't really prove anything, as there have been manufacturers come and go for, oh, the last 100 years or so.

You can't tell whether it's wood or plastic from a distance, either (the condition of the cork isn't all that relevant--it could turn out to be a $600 El Cheapo student oboe with brand-new cork because it was only played twice and then given up), so if you can't muster up the gumption to ask somebody to get the thing out of the display case and let you look at it, then you might as well just fuggeddaboudit. [grin]

Trust me, the shop owner won't have his entire day ruined by one shopper who was "just looking". It's par for the course for him, he won't be utterly crushed and have to go upstairs and lie down with a cold cloth on his forehead if you finally hand it back and say, "No, sorry".

Really. [grin]



From Wiki:

* Buffet
* Bulgheroni
* Cabart ( A Division of F. Lorée )
* Covey
* Fossati
* Fox
* Frank
* Howarth
* A. Laubin
* F. Lorée
* Marigaux
* Musik Josef
* Mönnig
* Patricola
* Rigoutat
* Selmer
* Yamaha

Besides these, some manufacturers have different product lines with names other than what's on this list. So it seems to me that the next step is to get a look at the name on the oboe.



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