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Re: Buffet Reed Socket Depths...

Author: Chris P
Date: 2014-01-06 08:42

Happy New Year Joung!

I don't know if Buffet just fitted extra deep sockets on what are otherwise standard length joints so the pitch can be pushed up to 444Hz, but logic would dictate they set the toneholes out relative to the shorter bore. Either the players at 444Hz did a lot of lip work to compensate with the reed pushed all the way in or they doctored the toneholes on the lower joint to sharpen the lower end, but as this oboe plays in tune with itself at 440Hz, some sort of lip gymnastic trickery on the player's part must have taken place. Both this Buffet and my Howarth S5 are identical in length. I've got a clarinet built to 444Hz and it's significantly shorter than a clarinet built to 440Hz.

While at Howarth we supplied oboes to East Europe which were all built to 440Hz, so I don't know how players manage to push the pitch up that high on the low notes.

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

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