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Viennese oboe". Guntram Wolf describes them: "From the concept of the bore, the Viennese oboe is the last representative of
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One instrument maker whose designs went in the opposite direction, utilizing a wide bore design, was the highly regarded German maker Karl
Friedrich Golde (1803â1873) from Dresden. His ideal oboe sound contained a deep, rich, warm tonality: "a powerful depth and a full sound will be achieved, ⌠a
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in the late 20th century, the Wiener oboe has emerged as an alternative to the use of hautboys or baroque oboes, retaining the tone color of the early instruments but not the significant limitations. In more recent years, as interest and use of the Wiener oboe has slowly increased, oboes are now
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The aftermath of the Second World War witnessed the takeover of the
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Viennese oboe is (with the
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situation only worsened as time went by, with the construction of instruments almost coming to a standstill. In the 1980s, however, the Yamaha company in Japan began to manufacture Wiener oboes, creating a hitherto unprecedented supply of quality instruments.
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thin, nasal sound, like the French and
Viennese oboes.â Ironically, just a few years after his death his design would supplant the Koch oboe and become the new Wiener oboe of the 20th Century.
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