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Re: Water in the second octave...How to get it out?

Author: sylvangale
Date: 2006-10-28 23:20

Susan made a suggestion of when pulling the swab through the oboe let it sit in the top joint a bit and it may just absorb what excess is there (Pull some swab through top, but leave most of it inside).

Propping the keys open works well. You can easily do the same by folding up some paper and placing the paper under the right place to keep your octave keys from closing. The water will simply evaporate like it does for the open keys. Especially handy after a long practice.

Then there is Al Markel's Rain X method in where you use the orignal non-wax rain-X formula, put some on a feather and rub it around in bore to repel water from the open holes.

Regards,
Stephen

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