Author: Graham Salter
Date: 2015-02-27 12:59
1) Does the RH1 key stick when the two joints are not connected? If so, you either have a sticky G-hole pad or some binding in the long rod of the Middle Joint. Unless some key has got bent in an accident.
2) If it only binds when the oboe is put together, then the screw on the arm must be trapped in the cork on the surface of the G# key. Scrape that off, clean up, and replace it yourself, perhaps with a very fine slice of cork cut with a razor blade from a wine cork, and shaped to fit. Use impact adhesive like EvoStick, that allows time to slide everything into position. Undo the screw above first, so that you do not squash the cork pad that covers the hole. Slowly lower this screw until F# – G# functions correctly: check this by playing Low Eb in the left hand, then touching the G# key (as one inevitably does), that should make no difference. Expect to readjust once your fresh cork has been compressed a bit.
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Post Edited (2015-02-27 13:05)
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