Loved your video. Very interesting. I was a flute/bassoon player in school, college. I bought a used Yamaha oboe at a music store tent sale, retired rentals. That would be my double reed when I was no longer in school with access to a bassoon. $$$$$. The maple oboe d'amore seems great. I'm glad you said oboe d'amore is best. Looking into it, it seems people love them or hate them.
May turn to a necessity to use maple in the future when the mpingo trees vanish in Africa. Those trees need to mature to 60 years at least then blocks are aged another 10 years or more before it gets to a milling machine. The demands for that wood is significant and used for string instruments finger boards. My Fender Stratocaster has a maple neck. It is hard wood, but let's see how many decades it will last we'll without cracking or warping. I don't agree that most oboes are cracked. The ones that do crack are for a variety of reasons. Mostly through a lack of care. I would like to try it to compare the resonation qualities to the tried and true grenadilla wooden oboes. Composite oboes may be more acceptable at first than maple oboes.
The lighter weight sounds nice about the maple oboe, but I used to work in nursing, and it has the color of the clay color stools of those with liver disease or (most often) gallbladder infection. It is an ugly oboe. The oboe d'amore was one of the most beautiful playing I heard from that instrument though. The maple oboe sounded meh but the d'amore was something special.
You could ask the maker to give the oboe a surface-finish like what's used for violins : french polish. Violin-backs, sides and necks are traditionally in maple. Often the fancy birds-eye or tiger-striped varieties, are used - Perhaps it would work for oboe's also ? ( Some moisture-proctection-treatment needed - i guess
Thank you for this, it’s the only one I’ve seen about this maple oboe.
Thanks for watching! I certainly feel like I learned a lot from James in this conversation.
I love the sound of Oboe d'Amore! That was really interesting to hear about the wood options for making an oboe.
Me too! And yes, I learned a lot as well!
Two of my favorite musicians speaking about music things in one video. Yay! Plus I learned some things.
"How long does it take you to make a reed?" "Too long." CORRECT! lol
Haha!
Loved your video. Very interesting. I was a flute/bassoon player in school, college. I bought a used Yamaha oboe at a music store tent sale, retired rentals. That would be my double reed when I was no longer in school with access to a bassoon. $$$$$.
The maple oboe d'amore seems great. I'm glad you said oboe d'amore is best. Looking into it, it seems people love them or hate them.
15:14 Yeah I felt that as an oboist. Just… all bad.
Of course, during the baroque period, oboes were made of boxwood, another light, close-grained hardwood. Also blonde.
May turn to a necessity to use maple in the future when the mpingo trees vanish in Africa. Those trees need to mature to 60 years at least then blocks are aged another 10 years or more before it gets to a milling machine. The demands for that wood is significant and used for string instruments finger boards. My Fender Stratocaster has a maple neck. It is hard wood, but let's see how many decades it will last we'll without cracking or warping. I don't agree that most oboes are cracked. The ones that do crack are for a variety of reasons. Mostly through a lack of care. I would like to try it to compare the resonation qualities to the tried and true grenadilla wooden oboes. Composite oboes may be more acceptable at first than maple oboes.
Agreed- the world is changing and instrument makers are going to need to adapt their materials.
Nice video! Do you have a link or something? I cannot find this nice instruments online.
Thanks. Does this work? www.moennig-adler.de/en/home
The bocal is called a crook in other English speaking countries.
The lighter weight sounds nice about the maple oboe, but I used to work in nursing, and it has the color of the clay color stools of those with liver disease or (most often) gallbladder infection. It is an ugly oboe. The oboe d'amore was one of the most beautiful playing I heard from that instrument though. The maple oboe sounded meh but the d'amore was something special.
You could ask the maker to give the oboe a surface-finish like what's used for violins : french polish. Violin-backs, sides and necks are traditionally in maple. Often the fancy birds-eye or tiger-striped varieties, are used - Perhaps it would work for oboe's also ? ( Some moisture-proctection-treatment needed - i guess
I like the maple look more than the stupid narcissistic pink oboe from redwood.