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Re: 2nd octave f# and g

Author: Wes
Date: 2013-11-28 05:40

Salvatore Spano, my late teacher, commented that this situation occurred on many older Lorees. His recommendation for stabilization was to add the low B key for G and he did that. I've not seen this on my two recent Lorees or a fine 1990 gold plated Rigotat I had. Perhaps they changed the bore recently.

It appears to be an acoustic resonance problem where the unfingered lower end of the instrument has a low-q resonance that amplifies or pulls the frequency of those notes, causing undesired effects. On both my English horns and my oboe d'amore, I've seen this same effect on G2 and Ab2, requiring adding some RH fingers to fix. The Eb2 also tends to be too loud on those instruments, requiring care in playing. Changing reeds or bocals doesn't seem to help.

One could call these "wolf notes", kind of similar to the F and F# notes on many fine cellos, caused by cello top or bottom body resonances, but fixable by various means. Good luck!

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