The sound is good when you play them. The idea of needing two minutes to soak and in hot water is a bit daunting!

Diese Oboe D´amore ist so toll!!!!! Aber was, wenn man sich trotz großer Liebe dazu sich so ein Instrument nicht leisten kann????? This Oboe D'amore is so great!!!!! But what if you can't afford such an instrument despite your great love for it????? Unter.3000€ bekommt man keine gebrauchte Oboe D `amore. das ist schade, denn do bleibt es wenig in der Öffentlichkeit gespielt..... Es tut mir in der Seele weh!" You can't get a used Oboe D`amore for less than €3000. That's a shame, because it doesn't get played out much in public..... It hurts my soul!"n can?????

From France !

Round bell is slightly softer and more covered. Flared bell is more penetrating and reedy. Nice to have a couple contrasting options.

Hello Marin, love your honest contents !!! Could I ask one question regarding this Klastig. What about the projection of the reed? I feel they lack of it somehow. What do you think? Thank you. Regards from Vietnam

The second sounds actually great in my opinion. But the boiling water... ugh. I already feel like a bartender carrying water and shot glasses haha. I guess, I'll wait a bit longer.

Thanks for your video! It’s clear the diference but you made them sound great! I agree it’s not practical carrying or looking for boiling water everywhere we go😝

can you plase show your playing instead all kind of colorful marbling screen:)

And the Shamer… oh my ex teacher shamed me so much… 😭

Maestro, thanks so much for the review. I've tried Legere & Silverstein Ambipoly. The Legere was very difficult to control (I was very new on Oboe at the time). I use the Ambipoly in rotation with several other cane reeds and it works very well. Not sure how long it would last if I used it regularly.

They sound terrible, there you have it.

Sounds beautiful! I had a chance to try a Moennig oboe d'amore at the IDRS, and was surprised to find that I liked the more open bell more. It gives a fuller, ringing sound. It's great to have a choice!

Stefan uses a bell made by Suitbert Walter :)

Очень люблю, как вы играете и разные видео делаете! Огромное уважение к вам!

Bell definitely had a rounder softer sound. Which makes sense if the bell is compressing and not flaring out the sound waves. Definitely one of those use for the type of music things. That bell would work great on some Bach stuff. Do I play? No. I would have an asthma attack about 5 bars in......😮‍💨

My favourite instrument, by far. Loved the bells comparison, and I have to say the rounded bell sounds beautiful. The straight bell sounds more "classic" and still beautifull. But the rounded one I loved it. Thanks for sharing.

I agree with your assessment. I thought the more traditional bell had the more covered sound we associate with the oboe d'amore, and the alternate bell gave it more of the cutting quality we expect from the oboe.

Thank you so much for this video! I love your sound on this instrument, regardless of the bell! I also have been playing one of these for about a year and a half now and can definitely confirm the great playability. Intonation is also quite good in the low to mid range, but for me not so much in both the octave key registers. Would also be really curious to know what your setup is regarding staple/shape/reed length for this instrument! I am currently using a Pisoni d'amore staple with H97 shape and total length of 51.5mm. Thanks in advance!

I liked both of them.!

I will play the Telemann concerto in G next week, so I practicing my D’amore like crazy this month.😇 The regular bell is more even, easier on intonation and a little “sharper” in pitch The “long” one is slightly flatter and intonation is not as precise. Projection is bigger in the long one but you lose some “warmness” of your timber that the “regular” one has. You sound great in both! Break a leg with your Bach in your concert!🎉😊

absolutely fine piece of work!

I try to play d'amore more and more, showcasing it as a solo instrument. Because I organize my own concerts (as a nearly-no-pay semi-pro) I can program what I want! ... I play a Bulgheroni d'amore with synthetic top joint. My next performance will include Le Repos de Tityre by Charles Koechlin! And anything baroque: instead of 'regular" oboe, I transpose by sight on d'amore!

Fascinating comparison. I agree with you completely, Marin, about the differences in tone quality. The more bulbous-looking bell sounds more like a traditional d'amore, but for my own feeling, I'd say that the straight/conical bell puts the timbre of the instrument somewhere between an oboe and a cor anglais. The straighter bell definitely gives the instrument a somewhat darker, deeper tone. Too bad there was so little composed for the d'amore. Great comparison! I always look forward to your videos.

Thank you so much Marin, such a lovely sound, and I would love to try one!! I'm learning oboe, started 15 months ago, teaching myself. I now have a teacher at last, and she is very good. I would love to try an oboe d'amore, as I really love the low and high registers. Such a pure and mellow sound!! I liked the second bell best too.🤩

Tone is so subjective, yes? To me there is no question the second bell is the more pleasant to listen to. It makes a stronger, more brilliant sound. The first more conventional one makes the instrument sound related to the bagpipes, a bit muffled. The second just makes a more appealing sound. What is the 2nd passage you played? It was so pretty to listen to.

Thank you Marin, for sharing this instrument with us. I’ve never had a chance to play one. Very nice!

The diaphragm is a sucker, the abdominal and intercostal muscles are the blowers, (and in circular breathing the cheek muscles)

Hey man keep doing what you doing 😊

I love this microphone, man - entertaining and educational video!

Brilliant! 😂😂😂😂😂 LOVE IT!

Yes! Maybe you should consider write in the description that it is the European style - I think a lot of people want to find videos of someone scraping European style, so it would help to include that in the description...

I love this video lol, I find this to be very interesting. The first and last scenes were the best 😂😂

nice recording quality !

Molto belli questi video sulle ance, grazie!

This is like people calling a euphonium, "small tuba"

it helps alot

New bell is so typically modern, it has just a whiff of stridency like modern clarinet tone, that extra bit of color that I am sure serves all sorts of important musical purposes but loses the smooth round perfection of the old one. The old one sounds like a classic oboe, the new one sounds like an oboe trying to live up to some outside standard.

Finally found oboist who grows his own cane. You are the last boss

I would say I preferred the mopane joint, sounded like it had a fuller, slightly richer warmer sound. I’ve seen it online and always considered it more of a visual thing. But the difference is quite noticeable. My partner is not going to be happy if you keep tempting me to a new oboe tho 😝

Wow what a nice video! Thank you very much for all this information! After finishing high school I stopped my oboe lessons because I graduated from the music school and i never learned to scrape my reeds. This video motivates me to pick up the reed making and scraping again! I do have a question about scraping. Can i also scrape more on the side (so more left of more right when holding the reed right in front of you) of the reed? Because i thought by scraping there I did something to the vibration of the reed.. so that's why I am asking just to ne sure if it would do something to my tone or to the vibrations of the reed, or if i could scrape on the side without it having consequences to how the reed sounds?

I play oboe and flute. I took the flute into a music class full of 5 year olds and asked if they knew what it was. “It’s a clarinet!”. The clarinets just have really good PR.

Clarinet thing 😭😭💀

Fantastic and very helpful video. Thanks very much. The one part I would have like to hear more on is the tuning of the crow, especially with your choice of length. I'll look to see if you have covered this as a follow-on or await it eagerly! Thanks again!

This is very interesting! I am American, so we use a scrape that goes down the back quite a bit more, but still, this is helpful just to see how you hold the reed and knives and how to make such small adjustments.

Brasil, hello

superb technique

my never ending love-hate relationship...

For me the mopani has more shimmering, more spin with same depth Oboe prof at Washington State University has a full mopane instrument: I prefer it to one of Cocabola.