Author: vboboe
Date: 2007-08-04 18:20
<<Of course, the C# key sticks, and has a delay of just less than a second. That might be the real problem. I play the C#, hear a click noise, than the note sounds>>
Yes, this is a problem, but you can probably fix it yourself ... maybe the C and C# articulated moving parts just need a little KEY OIL?
Do you have woodwind KEY OIL in a needle oiler if possible, but if it's just a little bottle of the stuff, OK, either way will also need some double-ended point toothpicks to apply smears of oil rather than drops to those tiny slits at each end of the screw rods. The C key rod also has a middle moving section, so oil those slits too
Don't substitute anything else for woodwind KEY OIL
... but even the needle oilers drop too much oil at once, so use toothpicks, otherwise oil will run under the pads (no-no!) or oops! cleanup rag can take springs off their hooks ...
A little bit of key mechanism clicking is OK up close, but not if there's also a delay in the mechanism's response time
Hope key oil will fix 'delay' in C# for you, that's the easy solution ...
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