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Re: traveling with oboe

Author: Bucky Badger
Date: 2003-11-01 01:38

I should also mention the obvious---don't put so much oil on the feather that it drips on the pads---it will mess up the pad material and may make the pads stick. Go lightly on oiling. You should see a shiney inside of the instrument and not a dripping interior.

I also use mineral oil for lubrication on the french horn I also play. For valve oil the recipe is 14oz of kerosene and 5 oz of heavy mineral oil and enough fragrance oil (I use spearment) to cover the kerosene smell(about 30 drops for me. I apply it to under the rotor valve caps, on the other side of the valve to the shafts and to moving parts. Price works out to 36 cents for a 4oz bottle vrs $5.00 for store bought horn oil. Oil also works well in trumpets EXCEPT when playing when really really hot. Fellow Dance band trumpet player learned that when its 100 degrees out, kerosene evaporates and valves will slow with only the mineral oil on the valve surfaces----use recipe only in normal temperature situations (with the dance band I play sax.

I started out playing Oboe in orchestra, sax in band in the 1960s. As of three years ago I alternate oboe and french horn (which we call only "Horn"---official name.
With the music we now play in the city band I am playing horn more and more-----music selected is the brass fanfare type music with dull uninteresting oboe parts. One march we have in the library is so old that the part is for oboe OR C Melody saxophone i.e. early 1900s sheet music.

jim buchholz

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