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Re: Backup instrument

Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-04-24 15:56

I've got a Selmer 104 as my outdoor/travel/backup oboe and while it may be crude, it's not a bad instrument at all. It's largely based on a Loree but I've done several alerations to bring it up to the same spec as my Howarth S5.

So from top joint to bell, the alterations are as follows:

- Reamed top and lower joints with a Howarth XL reamer
- added a 3rd 8ve key with adjusting screw
- added a new 1st 8ve touchpiece
- added a thumbplate to make it dual system
- added a new key tail and adjusting screw to LH1 fingerplate
- added a tab to RH1 fingerplate
- added a hoop for the feather keys
- added an adjusting screw to the D#/E linkage arm
- built up the F key touchpiece to make it higher
- tidied up the split D#/E ring
- added a low B-C link with adjusting screw
- added a low Bb bell vent

Plus a full overhaul with cork pads used almost throughout apart from the lowest two pads and the bell vent which are in white leather.

I posted some photos to Steve Sklar who put them on his site - scroll down to near the bottom of the page: http://www.clarinetperfection.com/clAltKeywork.htm

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010

Independent Woodwind Repairer
Single and Double Reed Specialist
Oboes, Clarinets and Saxes

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