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Re: Delicate little oboe...

Author: OboePrince
Date: 2015-01-29 04:15

The expensive ones can be MORE easily damaged, but flutes in general are easy to fix. Most flautists know how to adjust their own flute. I can take the rod out of mine and all. I would never dream of taking a screwdriver to my oboe except to adjust my vent keys or turn on my triple octave key (I hate those things, I never turn it on unless I have higher than an F in orchestra) And 1/8 of an inch is a measurement I was just making up as a very tiny amount he adjusted the thing.

I'm not saying people should be unkind to their flutes, not at all. it is still a delicate instrument. But if I am bringing it up into playing position and tap it on the stand by accident, or something that is not a hard hit like that, the flute will be just fine, at the very worst you may pop a spring. That same amount of banging would knock an oboe out of playable alignment for days. I'm just saying, it's much more sensitive.

I also, because it's all metal, leave my flute in whatever temperature, I am not really even conscious of that. My oboe, it doesn't even sit out in the cold car for a few minutes.

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