Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-04-20 12:26
Interesting that "Philippe Rigoutat had an oboe with an o-ring between the top and bottom joints".
I wonder if anyone has attempted a one-piece oboe? Or perhaps one ong top joint plus a bell?
Keywork would need some repuzzling for access to post screws, but it would be interesting to see how one would play.
Saxes do it, and I realize metal is different from wood, but a one-piece resin oboe or extruded plastic for the body might work. And carrying it around would be no worse than a soprano sax case.
Paul Covey once told me plastic oboes were still machined and that being more abbrasive than wood, harder on the tools. I wonder if injection moulding or some other technique could improve on that?
I am not anti-wood for oboes, but just thinking about other acoustic experiments that might work easier on synthetic materials...
Things like a 'rifled' bore or variation on that, perhaps things to enhance tone or projection, perhaps an acid wash to rough the surface like etched glass to alter resistence, perhaps engraved patterns in the bell...
Whatever the acoustic chaos created by the tone holes as sound passes through the bore, perhaps some way could be found to augment it if its a good thing, or some way to counter it if its not so good...
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