The Hautboy Companion
STOLEN OBOES !!!
[August 2011] : message from Eduard Wesly : a collection of 11 oboes was stolen from my house in the french Ardennes. Since many of these instruments are originals from the 18th and 19th century, there is a chance that they will find their way back to the market, probably via the internet. This might take years, so anybody who searches for oboes; please keep the attached list in a corner of your computer. I would be grateful to anybody who contacts me at eduardwesly@yahoo.com if he or she comes across a sign of one of these oboes.
Please forward this mail to anybody (dealers, musicians, collectors, auctionhouses, etc.) who could be interested in old instruments or oboes.
Thanks a lot.
All the best,
Eduard Wesly
1. Oboe Grundmann-Camus ca.1780
Upper joint signed "Grundmann" with number "1" and two crossed swords, lower joint and bell signed "Camus Paris", bell badly cracked, 2 horn mounts on the Camus joints, 2 silver keys, all parts have the same stained color and are made of boxwood. See picture.
2. Oboe Peuckert ca. 1815
All joints signed "Peuckert Breslau", 8 brass keys, boxwood with ivory rings.Top onion movable for tuning. See pictures.
3. Oboe F. Ludwig ca. 1840
Signed "F.Ludwig/Prag", length 54.2 cm, eight brass keys, stained boxwood. See pictures.
4. Oboe Berthold & Sohne ca. 1890
All parts signed "Berthold & Sohne" , dark stained boxwood, nickel (?) keywork, horn mounts, good playing condition. Very top movable for tuning. No picture.
5. Oboe Louis Muller, Lyon, ca.1860
Ebony wood, silver keywork, wood and keywork in bad state. No picture.
6. Oboe Loree nr. U56, ca. 1910
Ebony wood, silvered keywork with thumbplate system, good playing condition. In original case. No picture.
7. Oboe Loree Royal nr. KE58, ca. 1990
Ebony wood, silvered keywork, good playing condition. No picture, for similar instrument see the internet. In original case.
8. Oboe d'amore Peter van der Poel ca.1997
Copy of a Denner instrument, signed "P.v.d.Poel", three brass keys, clear boxwood. No picture. For similar instrument google "oboe d'amore baroque".
9. Oboe da caccia Peter van der Poel ca. 1997
Copie of Eichentopf instrument, signed "P.v.d.Poel", two brass keys, brass bell, black stained maple wood with black leather cover, clear & clumsy repair by Eduard Wesly with gaffer tape (!) ca. 10 cm from top. See picture.
10. English horn, anonymous, end of 18th century
equally and lightly bent like a caccia with three (or two?) brass keys, covered in black leather. Not signed. Instrument in one part, bell missing. No picture.
11. Bell of a Cahusac oboe, ca. 1760
The one who finds this bell gets extra flowers since the thieves lost and left the two other joints on my stairs in a towel, making this beautiful and expensive oboe pretty worthless and probably lost as a complete instrument for posterity. Dark brown stained boxwood. One ivory ring on the bell. See picture of the two joints still in my possession and imagine the elegant missing bell for yourself.
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