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Author: oboemelli
Date: 2008-11-05 12:21
A friend of mine has a Howarth XL oboe which is about 2 1/2 years old and she noticed a crack between the A and B keys just yesterday.
As far as she knew, she did not play the oboe directly after being out in the cold/vice versa. Do these things happen over time? I didn't think that an oboe that was blown in had the capacity to crack unless there was an extreme change in temperature.
I think it is fair to say that a Marigaux oboe, for example, would be far more prone to cracking in any case because they do not season the wood for enough time. But with a Howarth..?
Perhaps it's because recently the weather here has changed so very frequently? Suddenly very cold and windy... dry one day, very rainy the next..
Any answers?
"People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by"- Schubert.
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