About the baroque oboe
This is a baroque oboe redrawn to play at modern pitch. Its look is based on a baroque oboe in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Like the original it has three sections: an upper joint, a lower joint and a bell.
To fit the designer's RepRap, the upper and lower joints are each split into two parts. Every joining face has a 1 mm raised lip and two alignment holes; you shave the lip flat before gluing the halves together. A later update added the two keys, which you make yourself from 1.5 mm brass sheet using the included drawing (keys_rev2.pdf). The designer notes you may need to adjust them for your own instrument.
It's a project for someone comfortable with a little metalwork, and you'll need baroque oboe reeds to play it.
What you'll need
Printed parts
- Upper joint (2 parts), lower joint (2 parts) and bell
Bought parts
- 1.5 mm brass sheet for the two keys
- Glue for the joint halves
- Baroque oboe reeds (not covered on the page)
Tools
- A knife or file to shave the 1 mm lips on the joining faces
- Metalworking tools to cut and shape the brass keys