Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2010-02-21 12:18
I have in my disposal 2 cors...after a concert that didn't go so well with the newer one (which was supposed to be better) i figured that it must be an adjustment problem that i failed to realise, thus my previous question on the adjustment of the half hole notes.
2 weeks now and i realise that perhaps i am missing out something there...
I tried today the older cor, a Howarth intermediate model i believe, and i had no problems at all in that area, although to my eyes there are no differences in the height and adjustment of the half hole pads. The unresponsiveness of the other instrument, a stencil instrument from a famous maker in Europe is more apparent when i leap from another note to any middle register notes, example opening of dvorak 9th solo, C-Eb. Interestingly, i have no problems at all with the rest of the instrument, and basically the scale is superior than the Howarth, which to me has always a bit a sagging middle D.
Is it possible that it is a reed problem more than anything else? I have to play Daphnis and Chloe, Dvorak 9th, Roman Carnival, Petrushka, all in the span of the next 2 weeks...and i am thinking of switching back full time to the Howarth...is it something that i can solve myself?
Regards,
Howard
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