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Re: Mystery Buffet Crampon oboe (no serial number)

Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-04-11 01:50

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It's been converted from conservatoire system to pure thumbplate which explains all the filled in holes on the top joint - two sets of pillar holes for the con bar and side Ab-Bb trill key as well as the filled in tonehole for the side Ab-Bb trill key that was once there.

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The LH3 ring key has been turned into a decorative ring fitted onto the LH3 tonehole chimney where before when it was conservatoire system it would've had a ring key mounted directly to the key barrel the top joint Bb key is mounted on (the small pad cup in between LH 2 and 3 which is now the Barret side key (duplicating the thumplate action for trills). The side key would've originally been a G-Ab trill key with the touchpiece soldered directly to the G# pad cup key barrel (with the Ab-Bb trill key touchpiece overlapping it as you have on modern conservatoire and dual system oboes, but it's a G#-A trill on Gillet conservatoire systems).

It would've been far simpler to have simply added a thumbplate to make it dual system instead of doing all that conversion work, but pure thumplate system was the most widely used system and the one made by makers in the UK right up until the late 1980s.

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The lower joint has had the forked F vent removed (linked to the RH2 fingerplate) and an F resonance key fitted in place that opens with the F key. The filled in holes are for the pillars and the flat spring screw recess.

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The banana key (for the C-Db trill) and pillars have been removed leaving the holes in the lower joint, but the linkage piece (overlever) on the low C key is still in place. You hold the banana key down with RH finger 3 to close the low C key and trill the C# key - a bit awkward to use at the best of times.

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The RH C-D trill key has been mangled presumably so the player could trill with RH1 instead of RH2 - it should sit in between the F# pad cup and RH2 fingerplate. No idea what the stamping is on the lower joint above the RH1 fingerplate.

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

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