Does anyone play a Buffet Greenline Oboe?

    
Does anyone play a Buffet Greenline Oboe?    09:10 on Sunday, May 8, 2011          

oboe_girl19
(2 points)
Posted by oboe_girl19

If so, how do you like it? I am new to this site, just registered to ask this question. Yesterday I began oboe shopping, as I have to turn in the plastic Fox Renard student model oboe in one month. I am entering high school in the fall, and am fairly serious about my oboe playing so I was looking to upgrade to a full conservatory oboe.

I intended to spend longer shopping around, but I ended up at a very reputable music store that had 3 oboes for me to try. I tried a used Jupiter student oboe- which I hated, especially since I am looking to upgrade. Then I tried a used Rigoutat (the whole other end of the spectrum) and, although it was a beautiful oboe, surprisingly enough, I didn't love it (which was good because my family isn't in a place to spend $4000 on my instrument.)

Next, I picked up a "Triebert" oboe, which, to my surprise, was brand new and full conservatory. I played one note, and with just that one note, I heard the amazingly rich tone quality. The tone is, in my opinion, at the perfect point: not too dark, but dark enough so the tone is rich and beautiful. As I talked to the employees in the store, they told me that this oboe is a "buffet greenline oboe", which is what I understand to be a plastic/wood composite that retains the pros of both wood and plastic oboes and does without the cons. I had never heard of this before, but since it was such a great oboe right in our price range ($2000), we decided to look into buying it.

Since I fell in love right off the bat, the music store owner agreed to let me have a free one week trial of the oboe so I could get a better feel of it and show it to my private teacher. I know I could be looking at Loree's and Rigoutats and Fox Renard's, but we're not quite ready to go to the full professional oboe yet. If I continue playing through college we'll look into a Loree, but not yet.

So, my main question is, overall, what is your opinion of buffet oboes? Pros and cons? Thanks for reading this, I know it's long and I would appreciate any feedback you have to offer.


Re: Does anyone play a Buffet Greenline Oboe?    01:34 on Wednesday, May 11, 2011          

Trombi
(67 points)
Posted by Trombi

Albrecht Mayer used to play the Buffet greenline, but now he have an oboe of his own design, but the price 2000$ is very low for a Buffet greenline.


   




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