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Key Features
- Offers smooth octave transitions for reliable performance
- Provides warm tone with professional-style acoustics
- Delivers strong protection from cracking with resin-lined bore
- Enables fast progress through teacher-informed design
- Supports confident airflow and easy sound emission
Buffet BC4030 Prodige Oboe with Conservatoire System Overview
The Buffet BC4030 Prodige Oboe is ideal for students and advancing players seeking comfort, reliability, and a smooth learning curve. Designed with input from professional oboists and teachers, it offers a responsive feel that helps beginners quickly develop confidence and control. The resin-lined bore helps prevent cracking—while preserving the rich, wooden tone you’d expect from grenadilla construction. Smooth octave changes and easily manageable bass notes make it much easier to focus on musical expression, not instrument handling. And thanks to a carefully balanced airflow system, the Prodige keeps tone production stable and even across the range.
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Full Description
View Full DescriptionDesigned for steady progress
This oboe is built to support learners right from their first note. Through extensive collaboration with teachers, Buffet has created an instrument that helps players build solid fundamentals faster. The bore design and keywork give students better control over airflow and tone, making the process of learning scales, intervals and phrasing far more intuitive.
Reliable tone across the range
One of the standout qualities of the Prodige is its consistent sound throughout all registers. Whether you're playing a low B or navigating upper-octave passages, the tone remains balanced and even. This consistency boosts player confidence and encourages musical development, particularly in ensemble or exam settings where control is essential.
Durability without compromise
To protect against weather changes and beginner handling, the oboe features a resin-lined bore inside its African blackwood body. This design helps significantly reduce the risk of cracking while maintaining the warm tonal characteristics of traditional grenadilla wood—giving you the best of both worlds: dependability and sound quality.
Professional feel, student accessibility
Although made for beginners, the Prodige shares acoustic qualities with Buffet’s professional instruments. The response and sound are remarkably close to models higher up in the range. That means students can get used to a professional-style tone and feel early on—preparing them well for future upgrades.
Specifications
- Manufacturer: Buffet Crampon
- Model: Prodige oboe
- Key: C
- Keywork: Simplified system, semi-automatic, 2 octaves, silver, fixed thumb rest
- Pitch: 440/442 Hz
- Body: Grenadilla, resin
- Pads: GT, cork
- Material: Grenadilla, resin
- Product Code: BC4030-2-0
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