Vas Dias Stanesby Sr. Oboes in Boxwood, Plain and with Ivory
Description:
Oboe by THOMAS STANESBY, SR., c. 1700, after original in the
Hamamatsu City Museum, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, Ex Rosenbaum Collection.
Boxwood. A=410-415, as original.
With 3 brass keys: $2100.
With 3 silver keys and 3 (synthetic) ivory rings: $2450.
Listen to Marc Schachman perform an excerpt from the Adagio from Tomaso Albinoni's Oboe Concerto in D minor, Opus 9, No. 2, on a Vas Dias copy of a Stanesby oboe (from Venetian Oboe Concerti, © 2010 Centaur Records, Inc.)