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Re: Top Joint Repair

Author: cjwright
Date: 2010-05-27 17:04

I wouldn't do it yourself. You have to make sure that 1. it's absolutely lined up with the bore, 2. it's rotated exactly the correct way, and 3. when you do glue it in, you have to make sure it seals perfectly.

1. A slight amount of glue on the side of the reed well might make it lopsided and not lay perfectly flat with the bore and so the reed well would be angled at a 175 or 170 degree angle rather than a 180 degree angle. This would affect the acoustics of the instrument.

2. Just because it looks perfectly circular, and there's a hole in the middle, doesn't mean the whole is smack dab in the middle. It's probably slightly off to one side or the other. A professional repair person would pull it out, look at it very closely, and determine how to line it up directly with the bore.

3. If you glue it in, and it doesn't seal, you're going to have one heck of a time getting it back out, and the whole instrument won't work. It'd be worse than having a crack through a tonehole.

I know John Peterson at RDG will do this kind of work, as he pulled the reed well out of an oboe I know of and put in an entirely new one. If you really like the oboe and want to use it and keep it for a while, I'd get it done right the first time rather than trying to figure out how to do it.

Cooper

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