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Author: robertargoe
Date: 2015-03-28 06:32
Since I posted these topics earlier in the year, I have heeded the advice of you kind people and have made some progress; First, I have spent about 90 minutes a day practicing and working a lot on long tones to toughen my chops. Also, I found that if I used cane shaped with a -1 shaper and scraped very carefully with a short scrape pattern, that when I got down to the 68-69 mm length, that things started coming into tune. This includes using a scrape field of about 12mm. I managed to get my horn pretty tight with pretty good suction. ( This is a cheap, used oboe - not something that any of you would use.) Testing long tones against a tuner revealed that A on the staff up to Ab above the staff pretty much stayed right on the mark. But from A above the staff up to high E ranged from 30 cents sharp to 45 cents sharp. High F and High F# however, were dead on the mark. Down low was a mixed bag; Ab, G, F and Eb were 10 to 20 cents flat. Low B and Bb were 30 and 25 cents flat. F#, E, D, and Low C were dead on the mark. Sounds like I need a better oboe, but cancer treatment and heart surgery treatment bills stand between me and my better musicianship for now. Oh, by the way, the long middle C fingering sounds good to me and is in tune, The short fingering is still wild and also 20 cents flat.
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