Author: heckelmaniac
Date: 2017-02-18 12:20
In my estimation, from a manufacturing standpoint, making a left C# standard should cost just about the same as making- a touch lever (albeit longer than a "banana key"), two posts, a short hinge tube, and a cross lever to the C# hinge tube.
In my opinion, left C# should be standard on al professional model oboes, and I have lobbied oboe makers for years to no avail so far. A few years ago, I heard from two oboists who took an audition for a major symphony orchestra. Both said that on the sight reading piece presented, unless you happened to have mastered the banana key, or be fortunate enough to have a left C# and were accustomed to using it, the piece simply could not be played.
Another mechanism that is worth a look is the "automatic F" (E#).
With "automatic F," the E# key is articulated and closes when the E key, D key, or the low C key is pressed down. Loree made some instruments (mostly automatic octave system) with an "automatic F," mostly from the early 1980s and into the 1990s.
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