Author: Wes
Date: 2012-01-31 17:31
Thank you for your kind comments. Instability of those notes is present on my old Buffet EH, my 1985 Loree EH, and my almost new oboe d'amore. Actually, it is good to check their tuning with a tuner or their instability may be hard to detect. By playing with the bell off, these situations go away. They really are no problem as fingering changes can fix them. Reed styles or bocals don't make any difference here.
Older Loree and other oboes have had instability problems with G2, F2 and F#2 for the same reason, acoustically derived, which can be easily explained. My main oboe teacher always said to add the low B key when playing G2 but I never did it as my Loree didn't have that problem. Recent Loree oboes don't seem to exhibit that problem so it may have been fixed by bore or bell changes. They may also have changed the EHs. Good luck!
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