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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000027.txt from 2007/04

From: philfrei@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] forked F adjusting screws
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:39:50 -0400

There are two adjusting screws on my regular Loree, NZ serial
(2000-2001 or so). The one futher down (towards the bell) on the
instrument regulates the closure of the F resonance key. It hits a rod
that is part of the E key. The one just above regulates the opening
height. It is attached to the outer ring of the D key. The key
connections criss-cross, the rod extending from the E going above the
one from the D.

One way to see this: finger an E and then a D. The "upper" resonance F
adjusting screw mechanism rises, but the two see-saw levers that attach
to the F resonance pad do not move (should not move).

Then go from D to forked F. The two see-saw levers (held high, at the
at the lower adjusting screw) are allowed to drop as the E key
disengages. Their motion is (or should be) halted by the upper
adjusting screw. In fact, there probably should be a minute amount of
play in the E key (when fingering forked F) before it engages and
starts pushing the resonance key closed.

If the above is impossible to follow, and the forked F sounds bad, I
suggest bringing the matter up with a repair tech on the next visit.
There are some fingerings where left F is simply not an alternative,
e.g., in F melodic minor: ... C, D, E, F, Eb, Db, C ...

About the left F, I've had problems with this key requiring a longer
finger stroke than other keys, and this throwing off my timing on
certain passages. It seems to me the pivot should be a bit higher up on
the instrument (there's not much room for this) or some other way
should be devised to make the stroke length more closely matched to
other keys. My repair tech did (as an alternative to some of my more
drastic suggestions) bend the key slightly at the point of contact with
the right hand F to reduce the amount of free play, and this helped a
lot, as does contacting the key further down rather than at the tip (if
you have long fingers).

- Phil Freihofner

>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 12:20:03 -0500
>To: <doublereed@-----.org>
>From: "Lacy, Edwin" <el2@-----.edu>
>Subject: RE: [DR-L] Oboe's forked F-Day 2
>Message-ID:
<5C7554D82F4671478985015814A65B7707C85DE8@-----.edu>
>
><<<No one has commented on Loree Royale's little screws to adjust the
>height of the forked F key.I find it doesn't tune the note as perfect
as
>my use of cork in the hole.>>>
>
>I think that the adjusting screws are not for the purpose of regulating
>the height of the pad when the key is open, but rather to make it
>possible to adjust the key so that it is completely closed when not in
>use. As we all know, if that pad doesn't seal completely, nothing from
>low D on down wants to work at all.
>
>Jerry Sirucek used to call this the "oboist's daily adjustment."
>
>Ed Lacy
>
>
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