Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-02-04 02:26
Thanks, guys! I will start by looking at the BAMs.
Yeah, I am pretty pleased that I took the bull by the horns and went ahead with this purchase. (I have a very generous mother, btw, and when she has had a good investment year, she shares her bounty -- that's really how I have underwritten all my instruments.)
My teacher said first choice EH is Loree, but second choice is Fox. And I can't tell you how many people have basically said the same thing (except, of course, the ones who are in love with the new Howarths). I really had a great deal of trepidation, buying a Fox -- and an all-resin Fox, at that. But I took it to my lesson last week, and my teacher seemed genuinely impressed. She said that if she had not already bought an EH for the college last year, she would buy this one.
It really is a "playa" -- very responsive, good scale, no balky notes anywhere. Being resin, it's not as heavy as the wooden ones. And it won't crack when I take into into that cold, frigid, freezing orchestra pit next month (like my Covey did when I took it into that same pit two years ago -- lesson learned).
My WW5 is playing "Funeral March of a Marionette". It lays really low on the oboe. I'm thinking of transcribing it for the new Cor!
Susan
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