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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-11-26 14:50
Have you got any photos?
I assume it's probably a ring key conservatoire system with LH C# - no special name for this type as extra keys can be added either as standard or (most likely with this type of LH C#) to a customer's specific request.
And the LH C# is very a useful addition which I wouldn't mind having fitted.
A LH C# lever can be fitted to any oboe, but it will be expensive due to the amount of work needed doing and depending if it's a long lever key, or part of the feather keys just like the LH cluster as your Cabart has (and a LH F lever can be fitted over the top of these if wanted), whereas a LH F is much easier to fit to most oboes.
More usual was to have the LH F as the extra feather head and the LH C# overlapping them all (as a standard LH F would do now). See Leon Goosens' book for photos as he played an early 1900's thumbplate system Loree with the LH F and C# arranged in this manner.
Nowadays if both are fitted to the same instrument, the LH F and C# are both lever keys with the touchpieces next to each other, the LH F being on the outside with the C# key arm running down between the feather barrel and the RH fingerplates.
Also see photos of Heinz Holliger as his Rigoutat has both fitted in the current manner.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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kimber |
2007-11-26 14:12 |
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Re: Older key system Cabart |
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Chris P |
2007-11-26 14:50 |
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kimber |
2007-11-26 15:20 |
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