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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-01-05 09:33
I'm assuming it's possibly a Selmer USA oboe as these have two adjusting screws on the fork F vent. The lower of the screws (the one nearest the hinge tube) is the more important of the two as it regulates the closure of the F vent with the mid fingerplate.
The end screw is only doing the job a piece of silencing material does and offers more adjustment than just having the one adjustment from RH fingerplate 3 (thoug there are ways around this without needing the extra adjusting screw), and makes sure there's no metal to metal contact between the end of the F vent and the lower end of the rocker.
The upper end of the rocker is held down by the adjusting screw connected to RH 3 fingerplate which controls the venting of that key in relation to the mid fingerplate, so if there's some double action between RH 2 and the F# vent (the small pad between RH 1 and 2), then back off the adjusting screw to open up RH 3.
Likewise if there's double action between RH 3 and the F# vent, tighten the screw to remove the double action (which will lower RH 3). If you find there's still not enough opening on RH 3 with the screw backed off as far as it'll go without being noisy, then undo the end screw on the F vent to get more opening.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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mbam |
2008-01-05 08:27 |
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sylvangale |
2008-01-05 09:31 |
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Re: Learning Basic Adjustment - Help Question new |
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Chris P |
2008-01-05 09:33 |
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mbam |
2008-01-06 05:35 |
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