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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000053.txt from 2003/05

From: oboewannabe@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] New Subject-Bassoon Tuning
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 21:19:39 -0400

Dear Bassoonists,

The bassoon that I play from my school is a nice intermediate Renard 222
and it has a major flaw. It's 40 cents sharp and I can't figure what's
wrong with it. I've tried adjusting some of the tuning screws and it
stayed somewhat in tune for about five minutes. I don't know what to do.
Plus, low notes from F and below respond rather sluggishly, especially
when I get to C. It takes several seconds for the note to finally
stabilize and they won't work very well at all when I tongue them.
Please, any advise would be appreciated.