Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-11-16 13:21
I too have chronic problems with water in tone holes. I found that two things helped, both already mentioned:
1. Pay attention to the angle at which you set the oboe down. I found that if I set it down *this* way, it made water run into the F resonance hole, so I set it down *that* way. What seems to work best is to set it down mostly upright, with the keys facing upwards. This allows water to dribble down the back of the bore.
2. Cigarette paper to blot it up, or in a pinch, a bit of paper towel. Note that it isn't always the tonehole itself that's having a water issue--on mine, if the F# key seems sticky and the middle C is coming out with bloops, that means that the two little vent openings connected to it above it, in the left-hand, are the ones with water issues, and *those* are the ones I have to blot.
And I also occasionally give it a good shake, if it seems like we're having a particularly "wet" practice; I saw Evelyn Rothwell do this on a video that someone posted here, and I thought, "What a good idea". Grab it firmly in two fists and give it a couple of good shakes. Seems to help move the water drops down.
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