Author: ClarinettyBetty
Date: 2017-03-09 00:24
A friend gave me his mom's old oboe, a wooden Selmer full-conservatory model. He said she got it new when she was in high school (late 70s/early 80s) and that it had been kept in a closet from then until he gave it to me in 2010-ish. The location it was kept was Texas, crazy humidity swings, but air conditioning most of the time.
Anyway, when I started playing the oboe I thought I was just really bad at tuning; some notes I could barely get up to A=440, and others were just 20 cents flat no matter what I did. I had my reed-making friend make me some extremely sharp reeds, and that helped me play in tune. (Btw, when I played on other horns at the school I was teaching at--Foxes, Buffets, other Selmers, the tuning was fine.) She suggested that my bore had shrunk.
Is there a way to fix this? I've heard of boring instruments out, but I've also heard horror stories about an instrument being ruined by the boring process.
From a cost perspective, if I can bore it out and have a lovely, in-tune instrument, that would be better than going and spending a ton of money on something new. I could buy used, but then you go through the whole process of finding out its quirks, which may or may not be worse than the quirks of my own instrument.
So there's the conundrum. Any advice? Also, if it helps, the two worst notes on the instrument are top-line F (any fingering) and space C. Very very flat even with sharp reeds.
Thanks!
Edit-for spelling
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Eb: 1972 Buffet BC20
Bb: Selmer Paris Presence
A: Selmer Paris Presence
Bass: 1977 LeBlanc
https://gentrywoodwinds.com
Post Edited (2017-03-09 00:29)
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