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Re: Cor anglais/English horn problems

Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2011-03-22 13:07

Hi JCW...

Don't know whether i will be of any help here. You mention that it usually occurs with low G. So it also happens with other notes? Does it happen with attacks only or when slurring from another note towards it?

The moment i read that the G squeaked/stopped completely, i was thinking that you might have accidentally pressed the right hand G# key with your right hand. That has happened to me more often than i would like to, especially in nervous situations. Is middle and low D easy to play most of the time? (considering you have functioning reeds) If not, perhaps the G key is adjusted to need to much finger pressure, and i can tell you that many so called expert repairers would not be able to tell this, especially on automatic instruments. The sudden relaxing of the finger pressure after a note has started comfortably might lead to this too...

Good luck finding out the cause and do let us know when you eventually solve this problem.

Regards,
Howard

p.s. try another instrument to see whether that happens too.

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