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 Re: Cigarette Papers: Any REAL Need?
Author: Vickyoboe 
Date:   2008-08-31 15:23

Hello everyone

I was taught that sticky pads were most likely caused by sugar in your breath getting onto the pads. An easy way to limit this is to brush your teeth before playing and obviously not eating sugary foods or drinking sugar drinks during the course of your playing. This will also make your reeds last longer (as will putting a drop of TCP in your soaking water). I carry a supply of powder paper, they are sold in make-up shops etc for women to quickly blot the shine on their faces away with and have a sprinkling of foundation powder on them, this is normally enough to get rid of the stickiness. Failing this, scribble hard with a pencil on a piece of cigarette paper and use this to blot it. You want something that's actually going to get rid of the stickiness, cigarette papers on their own normally won't achieve this.

Water in the octave keys etc is a different matter; some oboes seem to just be more prone to it. I have a Howarth S5 oboe and I only occasionally get it in my trill keys, my friend has a Marigaux oboe and is constantly getting gurgling through her octave keys. She finds a combination of blowing it out and putting cigarette papers over the offending hole is best for fixing the problem, you need the paper to mop up the water you are blowing otherwise it just sits in the hole. Mopping your oboe out and blowing warm air down it whenever you're not playing for a little while is a good prevention, even if it's just a 5 minute break. This is because the water is mostly actually condensation from your breath and not just spit so if you let your oboe get cold in between times more moisture will condense out of the air.

Vicky
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