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Article: Oboe maker carries on sweet sounds. (Competitive Edge).(Paul Laubin)(Brief Article)
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- Westchester County Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 29, 2002
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In a second-floor shop of a hundred-year-old mill in Peekskill, Paul Laubin continues his father's work of carving African blackwood and rosewood into some of the finest musical instruments available.
The inscription of "A. Laubin, New York" can be found on oboes and English horns in the woodwind sections of the some of the most famous orchestras in the world, including the New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
While classical music plays on the radio, Paul and two other workers steadily fill backlogged orders in the second-floor shop -- four years of orders for grenadilla (or African blackwood) oboes, ...