Hunting through the pawn shops of the northeast I stumble across a lot of musical instruments. More often than not, they are well worn and not worth the time and investment it would take to recondition them and in most cases unless it was a 100% top to bottom recon., not an instrument I would rent to a customer. One of the most common brand of flute and clarinet I see in my travels would be the Artley models. Less popular today, they were extremely popular in the 80's and 90's and rightly so. They are solid student instruments.
On my most recent trip I was pleasantly surprised to find a 1987 Artley Oboe. It was in near museum condition, I must say and after a complete cleaning and technical run through I had this horn tooting like a bluejay! As for dating an Artley oboe, if it was made after 1983 add 50 to the prefix, e.g. 37-35984 would be a 1987. That's really all there is to it. Happy Hunting!
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