 The Oboe BBoard
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Author: JRC
Date: 2013-07-07 13:15
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I have been using them for sometime. Why use it? Just pulling out the reed creates empty volume at the bottom of the reed, or at the beginning of the oboe cone, or another way to look at it is a disturbance of smooth cone shape of the oboe from the staple tip to the bell, especially close to the beginning of the cone. It will screw up certain notes more than other. Every oboe reacts differently to this disturbance. One of my oboe will create wolf in the first octave E, F, and F#. The other one creates wolf in E and F# and G.
I go to near-by hardware store and buy a foot of 1/4"-OD 3/16"-ID tubing. They will give it to you for free or some times charge you a quarter. There are variety of tubing materials. Teflon would have been my choice but I could not find it easily or only available in 30 ft length. So I use whatever happens to be available. Most cars use this size tubing for vacuum. So you could go to auto parts shop.
I cut 1-mm, 2-mm, and 3-mm in length with a razor blade. And keep these in a reed tube. I usually make a bunch of them because I keep loosing them. When I swab, this comes right out. Be careful when you insert this. Lay it flat on my finger, place the oboe top join upside down on top of the ferrule and align the hole with the ferrule, and placed it in it. This is important. If the ferrule goes in side way, it is awkward to take it out.
They work great but I do not use longer than 3-mm length. The scale tends to go out of whack more than I can compensate for with lips. Yes, lengthening the tube should make the scale to go out of whack but our lips can compensate for it to an extent. If you can handle it, use longer ones. It is all up to you.
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2013-07-07 02:59 |
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2013-07-07 10:10 |
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