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Author: Chris P
Date: 2020-04-18 10:33
It's a basic design compromise with the majority of cors as the E tonehole (under RH finger 3) has been repositioned higher than it should be to bring it within easy reach and as a result, reduced in diameter to bring it down to pitch which both affects the tone and response of lower register E at low volumes (similarly with the C#/G# tonehole on most clarinets). Some cors are better than others, some crooks and reeds work better than others and finding the right combination of all cold be like searching for the holy grail.
Ideally it should be drilled somewhere around where the pillars are just south of the RH3 fingerplate (the upper pillars for the RH pinky cluster), but that will prove to be too much of a stretch for most players in conjunction with the already stretched right arm and awkwardly cranked wrist due to the physical length of the instrument. The forked F vent is normally open-standing on cors to help vent both the forked F and also the E, but it can only do so much.
There needs to be a redesign to bring the right hand much higher up the instrument to reduce the strain and also offer full sized and correctly positioned toneholes on the lower joint for better tuning, tone and response. Only that could end up being a big old mechanical mess - think of a Heckelphone and its keywork, but made smaller and with split keys to do the job of the vent hole in the RH2 fingerplate and the split D#-E mechanism for RH3.
I've got a Marigaux 930 from 1998 which I chose as it was the most free blowing/least resistant of the new cors by the other big name makers on offer back then. The newer 930 cors appear to have a much narrower bore than mine.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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