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Re: D key adjustment

Author: Chris P
Date: 2012-03-19 11:01

Did a concert on Saturday just gone. Rehearsal in the afternoon went fine but the cork on my staple peeled off when I went to twist the reed round.

Then not long into the actual concert my reed was playing up by the second number - then I noticed it had a split in it and I didn't have my spares on me. So I borrowed a reed from the other oboe player to get me through the third piece but the tone was too bright and hard to control, so I dived out of the auditorium while the Jazz trio was setting up to play.

Ran back to the dressing room to get another reed going and went and sat down during the applause. Reed was too softand bright and now my low notes were playing up. I put it down to the reed but carried on.

Interval and time to find another reed, spent fifteen minutes finding one that worked but it was too firm and the low notes were still playing up so I stuck with the one I got earlier.

Second half of the concert and there were plenty of pp low Cs to play which didn't happen - I put it down to reed trouble.

Went home straight afterwards and decided to go through all my reeds to sort them out in order of good, too soft, too firm and too bright. Then just by clacking the keys closed, I could tell the low notes didn't have the usual resonance to them instead of the nice hollow sound they should make, so I did a feeler gauge test only to find the F vent wasn't closing!

I took the RH main action keys off a week or so earlier to do something but put them back on without checking the regulation as they usually go back on with no trouble, but not this time.

It doesn't take much for the F vent to go out of regulation and simply removing and replacing the keys put it out of adjustment.

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

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