Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-11-16 13:54
Well, I'm glad to know it's not just me, or my instrument, that has a water problem. It seems that this is a pretty ubiquitous complaint.
As a matter of fact, I remember kvetching about this same thing on this board six weeks ago or so. At that time, vboboe helpfully suggested that I expend more effort getting the oboe warm before playing (much like her post above). Doing this religiously, I have found, considerably lessens the oboe's tendency to water up.
When it does take on water, the papering-shaking-blowing routine is what you've gotta do. Sometimes you even have to take off the key cover to get to it (HATE it when that happens). Otherwise, especially for top joint water, the idea of stopping up everything except the offending key and blowing (or alternately blowing and sucking) seems to work the best for me. Sometimes just a good blow down the top joint (reedless) makes a difference. If it's a bad plug, when it lets loose, you will know -- a deluge! Be sure to swab the joint afterwards.
There's a guy on the Klarinet list who uses Rain-X in his tone holes -- that's a product designed to make water sheet off of your car windshield. I've been chicken to try it. Anybody else heard of this? What about drying-up spray?
Susan
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