Author: claire70
Date: 2008-01-13 19:04
Some of you will have read of my travails with my new oboe in previous posts... I have a new problem!
Today I had a day-long rehearsal for an up-coming concert. Not just my 2nd octave key, not just my first *and* 2nd octave keys, but a total of FOUR keys were getting severely waterlogged by lunchtime. So the two octaves (especially the 1st), PLUS the small key between B and A (that was really bad too), PLUS the small key between A and G.
I have noticed the octave keys starting to gurgle when I've practiced at home (max. an hour - but it starts to gurgle after about 15 mins). Obviously with this longer rehearsal, it was soooo much worse. I assiduously swabbed out every time we had a break (roughly after an hour of playing), and sometimes in between too, in long rests. Yet by the middle of the afternoon it was just ridiculously gurgley and I could barely get rid of the water any more. (If I put a cigarette paper under the key(s) and blew through the top joint, about half of the cigarette paper would come out soaked through.)
Are there any solutions to this or do I just have to live with it? I am worried about what is going to happen in the concert!
Post Edited (2008-01-13 19:06)
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