Author: Dutchy
Date: 2008-01-10 03:24
No, that half-hole key is supposed to be partially closed off. Mine has what looks like gray plastic doing the same thing as your cork. It's got a big metal tonehole, but actually only a tiny pinhole opening. In order to get the D to jump the octave, one needs to break up the air column inside the oboe at a certain point by providing a hole (it's a physics thing), but the hole only needs to be *this* big, but the pad itself needs to be of a uniform size with the other pads, for ergonomic reasons. So they close it off a bit with cork or plastic.
It's such a tiny opening that it's easy to get a few molecules of gunky lint in there, and then it can't offer the air column an opening at that point at all and it won't jump the octave and you can't get the D2 to play.
But if the lower D is problematic, too, then it's an adjustment problem, all those teeny screws and springs and things. Good luck with that. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
If you use Chapstick for the lips, wipe it off before you play, because otherwise it will gunk up the pores in the reed.
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