Oboe sales, hire and repair

Oboes, Oboe d'amore and Cors anglais sales

A wide choice of instruments with many examples of the same model. Customising and technical intervention on both mechanics and acoustics.

Our company is able to carry out any job on any existing model of oboe, oboe d’amore or cor anglais. The most common jobs include:

Pad replacement
Thickness replacement
Needle and flat spring replacement
Adjustment screw replacement
Axial and tailstock screw replacement
Personalised instrument tune-up
Intonation adjustment on problem notes
Possible mechanical modifications include: transforming from the Prestini system to the French system and vice versa, from automatic to semiautomatic, from English to French
Modification of the ½ hole key to obtain C# , D, D# in the 3rd octave with either German (left hand index finger open) or French position (with index finger closed)
Double key for low C# (parallel to the double F key), and other types of customising to improve the ergonomics of the instrument
Silver plating (thickness -50 μ) , pink-yellow gold plating, rhodium plating of keys and columns
Restoring cracks and rebuilding bushes, vent holes