Last Updated 12/9/24
Used Oboes:
(please note that I am currently updating this page. Pictures of all oboes will be available soon).
The keywork on some oboes, usually in a green colour case, can look a bit ‘yellow’. This is just my camera trying to colour correct (I’ve no idea why).
- BUNDY – £600
- Made by the Selmer Company in the USA. Plastic bodied with silver plated keys. Covered hole, thumb-plate system. Plays very easily and in lovely condition.
- BUESCHER – £600
- Same as a Bundy, made by the Selmer Company in the USA. Plastic bodied with silver plated keys. Covered hole, thumb-plate system. Very good condition.
- HOWARTH JUNIOR – £700
- A rare chance to obtain this excellent starter oboe. The Junior is a ‘cut down’ version of the proven Howarth S10 oboe, but more suitable for younger players as they are lighter (having less mechanism). These will take a player to grade 3 and will be encouraging with its fine acoustic property.
- WARD & WINTERBOURNE TW3 – £800
- Probably the most popular Ward & Winterbourne model before the inclusion of the TW3a. This fine ring-system, intermediate level oboe is in beautiful condition and plays just as it should having recently been serviced.
- MALERNE – £850
- A very beautiful ring-system, thumb-plate (dual system) professional oboe from this fine French maker. This oboe offers an awful lot fpr the money with features only found on more expensive instruments.
- WARD & WINTERBOURNE TW3a – £1350
- This is their intermediate, wooden bodied, covered-plate model (and as such is a good direct alternative to the Howarth S20), but this has the addition of the left-hand F-natural mechanism. Ward & Winterbourne are always respected for their excellent acoustics and reliable mechanism.
- SCHREIBER 7150 – £1400
- This oboe, made by Buffet but stamped ‘Schreiber’, is the same as their 4151 – an excellent intermediate level oboe that will take the player to grade 8 and beyond.
- MARIGAUX – £1500
- This would have started life as a ring system, professional, oboe, but has been brought more up to date by having the keys on the bottom joint covered.
- BUFFET ACADEMY – £1800
- A lovely full Gillet (with added thumb-plate), professional system model in excellent order.
- RIGOUTAT RIEC – £2500
- This is a fine example of their ‘graduate model with thumb-plate and left-hand-F. The RIEC is the same acoustics as their professional model, but with machine finished (rather than hand finished) key-work.
- RIGOUTAT RIEC – £2600
- Their ‘graduate model with thumb-plate, third-octave and left-hand-F. The RIEC is the same acoustics as their professional model, but with machine finished (rather than hand finished) key-work. It has everything that the professional model has with the exception of some, seldom used, adjusting screws and the left-hand D# to E trill mechanism.
- MARIGAUX 901 – £2800
- A late 70’s instrument (No. 6384) in beautiful condition having just been serviced. The Marigaux 901 is still regarded as the flagship model that most professional players have used at one time or another, and many still do.
- PÜCHNER 33E – £3250
- Believed to be an 80’s or 90’s instrument (No. 3442) offering all the excellence you would expect from this maker. The 33E model is the standard professional instrument with thumb-plate and moved third-octave touch. Everything is in excellent condition as I have just serviced it and it plays beautifully.
- HOWARTH XL – £4500
- A late 90’s one, (N0. 4738) but hardly used over the last ten years. A beautiful oboe being sold on behalf of its original owner who cared for it impeccably.
- DUPIN GINET – £4500
- Dupin are a small, but proven, manufacturer of oboes based in Zurich. I don’t come across these very often, but they are always excellent. This is the first time that I have seen the ‘Ginet’ version, but it is clearly of the very highest standard. It is around 20 years old, has had less that normal use and hence is in superb condition.
- Howarth S5 – £4500
- An excellent example of a Howarth S5 (No. 6186) that has been played, loved, and well cared for by its original owner who, sadly, is no longer able to play and has reluctantly decided to part with this very fine instrument. The S5 and the XL were very equal instruments at this stage of Howarth’s manufacturing.
- DUPIN – £5000
- A lovely dark brown-wood oboe in excellent, recently serviced, condition. Being a brown wood oboe it is a little lighter than normal and has a slightly ‘mellower’ tone.
Used Cors Anglais
- BOOSEY & HAWKES IMPERIAL – £2400
- In its day this would have been one of the top professional cors available. It is true English thumb-plate system. Time has moved on and oboe development has evolved, but this still plays wonderfully and sounds the way you want a cor anglais to sound.
- HOWARTH S5 – £4000
- Having just been serviced, this is in excellent condition. It is an early one (prior to the oval Howarth name-stamp) and plays beautifully.