Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-04-08 02:30
No charge, my friend, I am still repaying your earlier kindness...(My new Covey is coming to life and I am a very happy man! I'll gladly trade this one for a nice place to sleep on my trip eastward this summer.)
The steaminess of the shower room in moderation will affect all the corks, adjustment corks as well as tone hole corks. Something Pat McFarland taught at a Mack camp makes sense here... smaller corks react in proporation to their relative size. (Thus, smaller tone hole corks need slightly less adjustment pressure than bigger ones and the slivers of cork around adjustmet screws need similar consideration...)
So, relax the adjustment screws considerably and re-adjust the oboe as I know you can do after the corks absorb some ambiant moisture.
Not playing my ehorn for a while, I learned this approach on a whim/inspired insight.
A good secondary lesson in this is, after a horn sits idle a while, play it a few days... long tones, no great techincal expectations.... and it seals itself a bit. Then re-adjust and good things happen.
take care,
-Craig
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