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Re: G slur D adjustment

Author: Chris P
Date: 2011-07-07 15:50

Don't drill out the diamond!

Just fill in the aperture with wax right to the top (applied with a hot needle) and then use a hot needle to melt through. Then check and adjust the newly made aperture until your top C# and D are better (along with adjusting the venting of LH1 with the adjusting screw).

The wax is effectively narrowing and lengthening the aperture and as it's wax it can be adjusted easily, added to or removed which is the good thing about it.

On some instruments (usually student thumbplate system oboes) I've pushed wax right down so it fills in the diamond and then made a 1mm hole through the centre of it so the aperture still had the full depth but there was now a circular hole at the base instead of a diamond.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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