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Re: your best-priced English horn

Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-04-17 08:37

Same here - I've been called to do a fair amount of cor playing since I bought one, which was my main objective as I only took up oboe to play cor - I'd rather specialise on the deeper oboes (as well as d'amore and bass oboe or Heckelphone if I can borrow one!) than stick solely on oboe.

I feel there's much more to give playing cor, and there's definitely a lot more you can get away with if the reed isn't perfect - cors aren't as picky as oboes when it comes to the reeds being spot on - they're much more forgiving and will still work when oboes will just give up on a bad reed day.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

Independent Woodwind Repairer
Single and Double Reed Specialist
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes

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