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 Re: 2nd octave f# and g
Author: jhoyla 
Date:   2013-11-28 15:14

This is a bit of a long shot.

Nick Deutsch (Prof. of Oboe in Leipzig, Germany) once gave us a two hour talk on reeds, cane and associated oboe stuff.

He mentioned that intonation problems in that range (1st octave key range) can be caused by using staples that are too wide in the throat - that is, they either have walls that are too thick or they slide a few mm. down the mandrel. I suggest you get hold of some Stevens No.1 or the equiv. Chiarugi staples (also No. 1, I think) and give them a try, before you start giving your oboe out for bore-adjustment.

I never buy less than 10 staples at a time - you need to tie on a bunch before you have a good seal and they vibrate well, and then you need to adjust the scrape and maybe your shape to compensate for the extra length (your normal "belly" will be further away from the top of the thread).

But even if you buy two dozen staples it is a fraction of what you will pay for a bore adjustment.

Peter Hurd on his website wrote a treatise on how oboes almost never "blow out". Unless your swab is made of some coarse cloth or your saliva is particularly active, I agree with him. Once the wood has settled (a year or two at most) it is unlikely to change significantly over time.

J.

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