Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2012-01-29 06:35
For oboe, they are small, and some players usefully place them inside the top and bottom joints. I no longer use them.
Care is taken to ensure no leaking water is there, but that still raises some questions re: inner and outer humidity...
Ain't easy is it?
Good luck with it. Advise your daughter to avoid any extreme temps, and sudden changes. Try to do the slow break-in (right), oil the bore (sweet almond oil or Naylor's bore oil) and hope for the best.
Do provide her good swabs... and that is another topic of complexity.
Pull through? PUll in and out? Cotton, or silk. Turkey feathers... (freaking bird feathers, if you are lucky enough to find a source).
And just think, you coulda had a V-8, er, I mean clarinet or sax player.
Seriously, invest in the oboe. It carries opportunities and rewards along with the challenges and will be a life-long love for your daughter long after she stops playing...at age 18 or 81.
Seriously.
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