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Re: Cor Anglais Tuning

Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-06-10 19:24

Howarth will send crooks out on approval if you contact them, so that way you have the chance to try them in anger over a week so you can see which one (or ones) you like best.

If they're too loose in the socket, you can always wrap paper or masking tape around the cork for the time being so they fit, but then have a thicker cork fitted to the one you like so it's a good fit in the socket on your cor.

I've got an older Marigaux cor (4-figure serial number) in for some keywork alterations and my crooks won't even go in as the socket on my cor (a late '90s Marigaux) is much wider than most as are the crook corks. Howarth, Loree and others have a pretty much standard diameter reed socket, but Marigaux ones are that much wider so most crooks rattle around in them. Same with my Marigaux d'amore which has the same diameter reed socket as my cor, so the d'amore crooks have pretty thick corks on them.

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

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