Author: mschmidt
Date: 2018-08-11 22:00
Sorry for the delay in replying, but I've been trying stuff. My adjustment screw was already all the way in. I put some masking tape on the instrument to act as a pad for where the screw touches, and this did bring down my C#; good. I just need my tech to install a longer screw or a pad under the touch.
However, lowering LH1 when open also brings down my open C#, which was wonderfully in tune. Now, many would say that I shouldn't be playing the open C#, because it has a bright and airy sound, but I actually find that sound fits in far smoother and of more consistent timbre when you are just playing a B-C#-B-C#-B figure, as in the third movement of the Poulenc Ob-Bsn-Pno trio. Sounds better than the trill fingering, too.
This oboe business is really full of compromises. Perhaps I should be flexible and continue to use whatever is appropriate to the situation. Poulenc, adjust LH1 higher, use RH1 + RH2 for C# except for the one place mentioned above, where I use the open C#. Mozart Quartet, adjust LH1 lower, so I can leave RH2 off when playing the piano C# in the second movement. I wouldn't adjust it daily in practice, but if I ever had the opportunity to perform either, would adjust in practice and rehearsal appropriately.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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