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Re: Cor anglais/English horn problems

Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2011-03-24 00:07

Inconsistent problems can be really hard to diagnose and address.

And one note acting up with others above and below it working fine, suggests to me a mechanical problem, perhaps a wear problem where the pad migrates slightly and sometimes seals and other times does not.

That can happen by end-to-end movement of a rod, or when that plus internal wear between rod and key work causes inconsistencies. End-to-end is usually controllable, but internal wear is a bigger problem.

One thing I can suggest is a reed to bocal technique (repeat of an old post) where you slightly screw the reed onto your bocal. I use a slight left to right twisting motion while pushing the reed onto the bocal.

It causes a metallic micro-groove to form and a tighter seal happens.

The more you reuse the same staples, the better.

When removing reeds, reverse the twisting motion.

Brass players do this with mouthpieces, and taught me the technique.

The call it keying the mouthpiece into the lead tube.

Then they cannot simply pull the mouth piece straight back out.

It gets really tight. And air tight.

Post Edited (2011-03-24 02:31)

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