Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2011-08-03 17:10
Reporting back on the first attempt (relatively successful, thank goodness!) of fixing the stuffy high C#.
When I backed off the Philly D, I found that the small vent on the lower joint was standing completely open when activated (or not!) by the low D finger key. I have to presume this is the way it was adjusted at the shop, because I have done virtually nothing to this oboe since I bought it a couple of months ago, and it has been very playing well, except for the C#, (and oh, yeah, the forked F and the B-A# trill. Hmmm. Perhaps I should redefine "playing well") .
The other thing I discovered in this process is that the F res key was massively overadjusted -- I turned it back a whole turn before I began the other fix, and at that point discovered that it was still very much engaged. You KNOW your f res is overadjusted when you turn it a whole turn backwards, and everything still speaks as if nothing had happened (and it also grabbed the feeler gauge quite smartly).
Results with the C# are good. Even better are the results with the forked F, which was also impossibly stuffy before, and is just lovely now -- like I expect on the Covey oboes.
But all this leads me to consider that I should go over the entire instrument to see what else is bizarrely maladjusted. OTOH, if it ain't broke, I probably shouldn't try to fix it!
Thanks, Chris P. JohnT, I will also look into the idea of cleaning out the holes, too.
Susan
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