Author: jhoyla
Date: 2011-07-07 19:38
often, problems can be the result of poor adjustment on the top-joint. Your description has the classic feel of an instrument that is out of adjustment.
Oboes are very prone to this. Nearly all oboe adjustments are tiny pointy screws pressing into a thin cork pad - very unreliable, and prone to change as the cork ages or the screws slip.
If you don't know how to regulate an oboe, now is the time to learn. there are resources online or you can buy one of the recommended books (Sawiki or McFarlane, I think?)
Google for Brian Seaton's free Oboe Adjustment Guide.
Do you know how to do a vacuum check? On each joint?
Do you know how to use cigarette paper as feelers under the keys?
Also - please check that your octave keys are descending fully - sometimes when the corks are a bit worn they can "almost" close but not quite, especially if you release the octave key slowly.
If I were to hazard a guess, I would suspect one of the little keys between your LH fingers, or the F#-G# connection being a touch too tight.
J.
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