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Re: Clarinetist has question for Oboe player!

Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-02-14 15:19

My personal opinion is that the reason oboes are so expensive is because they're the most difficult instrument to play. Face it--if every year 5 million fifth-graders decided they wanted to play the oboe when the annual "Meet The Band Instruments--You Can Play One, Too!" assembly took place in the school auditorium, oboes would be as cheap as clarinets. But they're so hard to play, and it takes so long before you can make even an adequate noise, that 10-year-olds don't swarm to play oboe the way they latch onto clarinets and flutes, and yes, even violins thanks to Suzuki. If we had 5 million sets of parents every year clamoring for cheap oboes, and crossly refusing to pay more than the $300 to $800, say, that Dad expects to invest in a clarinet or flute for his kid, then we'd have cheap oboes all over the place the way we have clarinets and flutes and violins, complicated bores and keywork notwithstanding. Market forces would kick in, and somebody, somewhere, would find cheaper and more efficient and economical ways to make oboes.

Same thing for EH and bassoons--if every junior high school band had 6 bassoonists the way they have 6 clarinets and 6 flutes, bassoons would be a lot cheaper.

Supply and demand. No demand--no supply. It's as simple as that.

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