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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2006/11

From: John Towle <gtowle83@-----.net>
Subj: Fwd: Re: [DR-L] Water in lower Octave key
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:05:32 -0500

> From: John Towle <gtowle83@-----.net>
> Subject: Re: [DR-L] Water in lower Octave key
> David,
>
> My solution is to remove the offending octave insert
> with a double pointed tool designed to do only this
> job (Mark Chudnow has them), soak the insert in
> isopropyl alcohol (I am sure vodka would work just
> as well), then spray the little beastie with
> Woodwind-All, a concoction available from Forrests.
> If you don't have that, go to the supermarket & buy
> a product called Favor (spray) High Shine Lemon
> Furniture Polish in the cleaning section. It has
> silicone in it which repels water just fine. Before
> reinstalling the sprayed octave insert, I spray a
> wee dram of either the All or Favor onto a pipe
> cleaner & ream the hole. Just be careful not to
> touch the rear of the bore with the end of the pipe
> cleaner, for obvious reasons. Screw the insert back
> in, cinch it up with the tool, quaff the vodka &
> play away. If you are a purist, then melt a small
> dab of paraffin around the insert where it meets the
> wood. I sometimes do this if the spirit moves me.
> Lately, I find it doesn't make
> a heap o' difference. This Rx lasts about a month;
> then ya gotta do it again. Carl Sawicki has a
> procedure for all this; he uses a Q-tip with
> Vaseline. I am of the opinion that with a Q-tip, you
> could likely leave a strand or two of cotton in the
> hole or a lump of Vaseline, so I developed the above
> homebrewed solution with a little help from a fellow
> named Harvey Gurien who published a piece in the
> IDRS magazine a while back & basically advocated the
> same thing:
>
>
http://idrs.colorado.edu/Publications/DR/DR18.2.pdf/DR.18_2.index.html
>
> It works. Don't use a Q-tip.
>
>
> The offending liquid is condensate (water}, meaning
> that it is now colder than in the summer,
> necessitating a longer period of warming up the
> outside of the oboe (top & mid joints) before
> blowing into them.The longer I spend doing this, the
> less condensate I get. Five minutes should be about
> right; at least it is here on the central coast of
> California. It might take a tad longer in the
> jungle of NYC where you live (ha, ha)
>
> Best,
>
> john
>
> P. S. I love NY. Went to school there.
>
> David Lurie <klingsor@-----.com> wrote: I know this
> subject has been brought up before, but I don't have
> any
> access to the msgs. I just cleaned out the octave
> vent in my Loree,
> and it worked fine for all of 5 minutes. I keep
> little cigarette
> papers under the pad when not playing it. But
> inevitably water gets
> back in there and prevents the middle E, F, F#, G &
> G# from sounding.
> Interestingly enough, the forked F will work OK,
> although I don't
> understand why. Can someone explain this, pls?
>
> Anyway, what remedies are there for getting the
> water out of the vent?
>
> Thank you
>
> David Lurie

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