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Re: new oboe / Marigaux quirks

Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-10-22 18:55

I wasn't blaming you personally, but laying oboes down on the feather keys is the most common cause for this trouble, and there are a lot of players and teachers that do this without realising the implications.

On Marigaux oboes they have the bell key and bell vent mounted on a pinned steel (like the top joint trill levers, feather keys and kidney keys), and this is mounted between point screws. Check there's some slight lateral movement between the pil'ars (if it's too tight it can cause binding), and check that both the bell vent and low Bb key work independantly of one another, and there's sufficient spring tension to make them work. Check the low Bb pad opens and closes under it's own spring while the bell vent is held open.

The linkage from the feathers to the bell key (just above the tenon, on the right as you're looking at it) should be able to return to it's resting position under it's spring tension. If it doesn't, the spring could be weak, the screw or key barrel could be bent or the upper pillar could be misaligned. Even if there is lateral play between pillars, a slightly twisted pillar (where the screw thread is) will cause the key to bind.

To be honest, it will need to be looked at as that's the only way this problem can be diagnosed and then sorted out. But this problem should really have been pointed out to a member of staff at the time so it could have been dealt with there and then.

And problems like this can happen to any make of oboe.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

Post Edited (2007-10-22 19:08)

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