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Author: matt_lin18
Date: 2015-01-25 07:58
When I try to play Ab/G#, the G key will stick for a split second. I'm not quite sure what it is doing because it happens randomly and too fast for me to see. I noticed that when I played the Ab, the wrong note comes out, some key moved on my instrument then it played the correct note. Because it happens occasionally and too fast for me to see, it took me a while to identify which key it actually was.
By the G key, I'm referring to the right hand index finger key.
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Author: jhoyla
Date: 2015-01-25 10:03
RH index-finger?
And this doesn't happen normally for the transition from F# to G?
The only thing I can think of is that you have a thick piece of cork on top of the G# vent, and that the F#-G# connection screw is somehow "engaging", a bit like two cogwheels engage and lock together.
Take a closeup look at the cork on the G# vent, and see if there is a hole that could be engaging the adjustment screw. If that is the propblem, replacing that cork is a 5 min. job for any technician.
J.
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Author: Graham Salter
Date: 2015-02-27 12:59
1) Does the RH1 key stick when the two joints are not connected? If so, you either have a sticky G-hole pad or some binding in the long rod of the Middle Joint. Unless some key has got bent in an accident.
2) If it only binds when the oboe is put together, then the screw on the arm must be trapped in the cork on the surface of the G# key. Scrape that off, clean up, and replace it yourself, perhaps with a very fine slice of cork cut with a razor blade from a wine cork, and shaped to fit. Use impact adhesive like EvoStick, that allows time to slide everything into position. Undo the screw above first, so that you do not squash the cork pad that covers the hole. Slowly lower this screw until F# – G# functions correctly: check this by playing Low Eb in the left hand, then touching the G# key (as one inevitably does), that should make no difference. Expect to readjust once your fresh cork has been compressed a bit.
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Post Edited (2015-02-27 13:05)
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Author: jhoyla
Date: 2015-02-27 18:34
Did you ever figure this one out?
J.
Post Edited (2015-02-27 18:35)
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2015-02-27 19:15
Sometimes if the socket ring is loose it can cause the RH1 fingerplate to bind when the joints are fitted due to the pressure from the upper joint on the socket ring causing the upper RH main action pillar to push against the RH1 key barrel. So have the socket ring checked to be sure and fixed if it is.
If it is due to the adjusting screw tip digging into the cork on the G# pad cup, then have the cork replaced with something harder wearing as natural cork is no good under adjusting screws as they will only chew their way through it.
So have a thin piece of rubberised cork (rubco, tech-cork or gummi-kork) glued on the G# pad cup instead, or have a nylon tip fitted to the adjusting screw. Only problem with nylon tipped adjusting screws is they can create some mechanical noise and oboes already have enough of that as they are.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: matt_lin18
Date: 2015-03-02 10:58
It was actually not the RH1 key, it was G#/Ab key it self that wouldn't immediately come up. I haven't experienced in a while and I guess the problem just went away on itself. Thanks for all your help.
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Author: huboboe
Date: 2015-03-11 03:07
Matt, I'm betting you had/have a sticky pad. If/when it happens again, slide a dollar bill, the more used the better, under the pad, hold it down lightly and slide the bill out. This will scrape the gunk off of the pad. And a twenty doesn't work any better... :-)
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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