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Author: MidnightKat
Date: 2013-03-13 00:05
Does anyone have a photo or link of an oboe with a left C# key? I want to kow what it looks like.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2013-03-13 00:33
Attached is a photo of my own oboe which I fitted a LH C# key to using the existing pillar layout.
Or not.
I mentioned this in a thread at the time I was experimenting with fitting it and pleased to say it turned out well in the end! Scroll down to the 4th reply from the end for a photo of the finished keywork.
http://test.woodwind.org/oboe/BBoard/read.html?f=10&i=20497&t=20477
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2013-03-13 00:58)
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Author: wkleung
Date: 2013-03-13 06:06
Heinz Holliger can be seen pictured with oboes with left C#. Take a look at the album cover of his Telemann concerti on Philips.
Sincerely,
Wai Kit Leung
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Author: jhoyla
Date: 2013-03-13 06:08
Chris,
when are you marketing that do-it-yourself LH C# conversion kit? 
Jealous as all hell,
J.
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Author: heckelmaniac
Date: 2013-04-06 20:06
I am astonished that left C#key has not become standard on all professional model oboes, oboes d'amore, English horns, and bass oboes by all makers. From an engineering point of view, it should not cost
much (if any) more than making the (stupid) "banana key."
After all, it is just two posts, a short hinge tube, a short rod, a cross lever to the C#, and a long touch lever. The left C# is truly a "handy" key!
For instance, the second movement of the Bax Quintet becomes ever so much easier when you have a left C# key. And the left C# key touch can be positioned in such a fashion that it will not be hit inadvertently when aiming for the left F key touch.
Oboes.us
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Author: wkleung
Date: 2015-12-27 02:37
Dear Chris, Rebecca,
I am writing an article for the IDRS Double Reed magazine, and am looking for photos showing the left C# mechanism. Do I have your permission to include the photos you posted on this thread? Please let me know and thanks a lot.
Sincerely,
Wai Kit Leung
Post Edited (2015-12-27 02:39)
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-12-27 06:51
Feel free to use the photo I posted and if you want more detail of how it works (and it's still working very well), don't hesitate to ask.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: huboboe
Date: 2015-12-31 09:25
My first good oboe was #GG38, made in 1910 by Lorée for Cesare Addimondo, who became the principal oboe of the newly formed San Francisco Symphony in 1915. My teacher bought it for me from his widow in the middle '50s. It had a LH F, a LH C#, rollers between the lower C & Eb, a Barrett thumb-plate and a semi-automatic octave key. Wish I still had it. And the LH C# was a wonderfully useful bit of keywork.
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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