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Re: D key adjustment

Author: OboeCraig
Date: 2012-03-20 23:24

Overkill -- I like it.

I took an oboe adjustment seminar with McFarland at John Mack oboe camp in 1980 or 81... can't remember any more.

He walked us through top to bottom starting with having us back off all the adjustment screws.

Then he worked us down the oboe in what he considered the best order of progress.

Then he made 2 suggestions:

1) Go home and repeat this whole process 10 times over 10 days. Point was by then we'd really have a good grasp on it.

2) Periodically do this whole thing to your oboe, because incremental adjustments can be really complex and introduce other problems.

Now, all these years later, I back off a few things but otherwise reconfirm good adjustment, still top to bottom. Leave f#-g# as the final adjustment, though.

Any time I notice a loose adjustment screw, I remove it and insert a few filaments of reed thread and replace the screw. Use care not to extend the thread below the bottom of the screw socket, so it does not move around and cause problems.

Screws or their sockets wear and eventually a loose screw will move around and cause problems. A few fragments of reed thread can really assist with this problem. And you can do the same thing to your eye glasses for loose screws with good results.

This technique does not work for loose mental screws, however. For that, I'd suggest a ball pein hammer and a quick 5 - 10 solid taps to the noggin.

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-Craig

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