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Author: cjwright
Date: 2008-02-16 03:53
I think this depends on:
1. If you've ever changed a pad before
2. If your tone holes are in good shape, or if there's small (almost microscopic) chips in the ridge rings.
3. How good of a job you hope to do.
Changing a pad is one thing, and it's quite a skill if you haven't learned how to do it previously, particularly cork pads. There's two ways that I know of, floating it in with shellac and bending the key ever so slightly to make sure it falls perfectly even, or putting it in place with shellac, and using pumice, cigarette paper, and graphite to mark the pad and see the graphite ring on the cork pad and sand down the part that hits first. Both are not easy ways. Of course neither of these techniques will work very well if your tone holes aren't perfectly even but rather they have nicks in them.
There's more than just changing pads too. You also need to regulate the height of the pad to the tone hole, and make sure that the pad is not too thick or too thin. If a pad is too thin or too high from the tonehole, perhaps the note will sound bright or play sharp, while a pad that is too low will make the note sound stuffy or low in pitch. All this can be manipulated with thickness of pad, bumper corks, and adjustment screws.
Sometimes you'll repad an entire part of an oboe, and then you'll find that a key just won't open far enough, like the C key or the Ab key, and you have to go back and re-regulate a 4 or 5 other pads to the right height. That's very frustrating.
So, repadding isn't as easy at it might seem. But it's good practice to start if you have the spare cash to buy up some materials.
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cowtime |
2008-02-16 01:12 |
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Re: Oboe pad replacement new |
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cjwright |
2008-02-16 03:53 |
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cowtime |
2008-02-16 18:58 |
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