Alfred Laubin

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Alfred Laubin (1906 - 1976) was the most accomplished oboe maker in America.^{[citation needed]}

Alfred was born in 1906 in Detroit, where his father Carl was a charter member of that city's orchestra, playing the oboe and the clarinet. Al's early oboe studies were in Boston with Lenom, DeVergie, and Gillet, who exercised the greatest influence on Alfred to start making oboes.

Al played in Boston as an extra with the Boston Symphony and at the Esplanade Concerts. He was the first oboe with the Hartford Symphony under Leonard Bernstein, with the Springfield Symphony and with the New Jersey Symphony. He played second oboe with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Reiner and played the first season, as well as several successive ones, with the New York City Opera Orchestra.