Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-04-06 16:22
If there's no time pressure (for example, perhaps you stand to lose a million-dollar inheritance if you don't own a Loree Royal by May 1 ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif) ), then I would definitely wait and try more oboes, wherever you can get your hands on them. It's never a good idea to rush into any purchase that's over, say, a few hundred dollars, whether it's a flat screen TV or an oboe. You can't lose anything by waiting except an oboe in Atlanta that you don't sound too sure about. If they're asking you to drop $6,500, then I'd think that you ought to be in love with the thing, swept away, ready to sign anything if only they'll let you have that baby. And you don't sound like that.
When it comes to used Lorees, it's definitely a seller's market--I don't remember ever seeing a Loree on the Online Auction Site That Must Not Be Named, because people who want to sell their old Loree don't chuck it away to ill-informed Internet amateurs for a pittance--so it's just a question of being patient until the right instrument at the right price heaves into view on your horizon. Frankly I think it's more a matter of luck than anything else (or Fate, or Serendipity, or whatever you want to call it).
Anyway, good luck with it. I'll sacrifice a chicken at this end to the Oboe Gods for you.
ETA: When you're talking about Lorees, "less expensive" is a relative thing, you know. Resign yourself to the fact that even a used Loree is going to set you back about the price of a car--a used car, true, but still, a car.
Post Edited (2007-04-06 16:24)
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