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Swedging the oboe

Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-08-07 21:10

I have wondered about this for a while, is swedging the oboe mechanism something a relatively competent oboe player/adjuster should be able to do?

(Swedging uses a special pliers to reform/extrude some metal to make up for excessive play where rods are worn. At some point, rod wear causes pads to move around beyond reason and the oboe can get twitchy and unreliable on some notes.)

I have also wondered whether some very small nylon or teflon washers might substitute for swedging the metal. They would go over the rods just like the mechanism's and key's tubes do.

Any thoughts, pointers, cautions, etc.,...?

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