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No, best one. There are lot`s of good one`s depending on how much you want to pay.

I use a bundy and the sound is superb!! I find wooden reeds to sound MUCh better than the Fibercane ones.... Good luck in your search! ~Ann~

its up to you really. you need to go to a dealer who sells oboes and try models in the beginners range. then its really up to how you feel about each different one and how much you`re prepared to pay. i dont know about prices in dollars but i think a beginners model in the UK costs around £1000 give or take. more likely to be over than under tho.
you could see if you could hire one from your local music service? when you`re more experience you can then hand it back and go and buy a better one that will last longer.
tish
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It really does depend, if you are at a school, I would recomend trying their oboe, or if you perfer to buy (or if you cant rent free like that) then I suggest you get your own reed and try out a few at a music store. But if you do plan on buying one, I personally would not suggest the yamahas. I have never actually tried one, but I have heard them, and even the wooden ones had terrible tone. (I also own a Yamaha alto sax and some of the key guards are comming off.) The selmer at my school (though I don`t like it one bit) actually sounds decent, and also a good brand is Fox, they make pretty good instruments (so I`ve heard) and My band director actually recomended me to get one. (though I ended up with a fossati) Ok. I`m done.