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Re: Key posts

Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-10-07 12:33

The pillars should unscrew easily. Wire them up on soft brass or copper wire so they're held by the thread - don't wire them up tight as the plating will weld the wire to the pillars, so make sure they are loose enough to turn but not too loose so they fall out if shaken.

Write down the order of where each pillar went on a piece of paper (and keep it safe!), and have several wires with around 10 pillars on each, with a gap in between each pillar by around 15-20mm on each wire. So you know which wire corresponds to your list, put a knot in the first wire, two knots in the second wire, three in the third, etc. and mark the list 1, 2, 3, etc. so it all correlates.

Your list should look something like this which corresponds to the placement of each pillar on its wire:

Wire #1:

2nd 8ve upper
2nd 8ve lower
8ve rocker left
8ve rocker right
1st 8ve upper
1st 8ve lower
3rd 8ve upper
3rd 8ve lower
trills upper
trills lower

Wire #2:

main action 1
2
3
4
5
G# upper
G# lower
Con bar outer
Con bar inner
G#-A outer
G#-A inner

Etc.

Pillars sometimes get plated along with the keywork (usually the case on pro models) but more often they get barrel plated so they usually don't have anywhere as near the same thickness of plating as the keywork gets, so the plating on pillars can wear quicker than the keywork plating.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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