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Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-06-26 15:48
If you're after new instruments, contact any makers to see if they can do this as a special order for you. I've only ever seen half Boehm clarinets that were simple/Albert system but had Boehm layout for just the RH main action or the entire lower joint, but never any oboes or cors with this layout - used or new.
Where the F key normally lies, that will become the cross F# key as on clarinets and saxes. The split plate D#-E trill found on full Gillet conservatoires can be made as a single touchpiece with a hole through it (closed by the LH Eb touch) and it may need an Acton vent (as on post-'60s B&H 1010 and Reform Boehm clarinets) so F# is fully vented when played with the xxx|oxo fingering.
On cors it could also mean placing the E tonehole in its correct place slightly lower down the joint with the full sized tonehole, so the RH pinky cluster would be placed lower down the joint as well. Finger spacing won't be much of an issue due to the closer spacing of the toneholes.
Would you still have conservatoire action for Bb and C (by closing RH1) or go with thumbplate action for them?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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JRC |
2011-06-26 14:53 |
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Chris P |
2011-06-26 15:48 |
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JRC |
2011-06-26 16:03 |
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Wes |
2011-06-26 18:18 |
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Chris P |
2011-06-26 20:07 |
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