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Re: My low E and F are muffled, and speak poorly; does everybody's do this?

Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2007-05-10 21:40

Wow! I am SO happy that you found the source of the "fuzzy" sound -- and it was fuzzy, indeed!

Would that all fixes were so quick!

BTW, for those of you who are hanging on with bated breath to learn if I ever got my Covey set right again, I am happy to report that it is now behaving, or misbehaving, as well as ever. My teacher went over it twice with the oboist's equivalent of a fine-tooth comb, and got it almost right.
But we both still had the nagging sensation that something wasn't seating right.

Then, in a fit of "what the heck, it can't hurt", and because I had two concerts to play this past weekend, I took a piece of the finest wet-dry sandpaper I had (almost no grit -- less grit than a dollar bill), and gently swiped off the business side of all the top joint corks. (Some people actually do use crisp dollar bills for this, I understand.)

It worked!

A little too voo-doo for my tastes, but, hey! I've got a functional oboe again.

Now, ask me what happened at the end of my second concert performance. (I will only tell if asked, because this was totally my fault!)

Susan

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2007-05-09 14:32

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2007-05-09 19:48

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2007-05-10 01:31

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2007-05-10 01:57

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2007-05-10 19:03

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2007-05-11 02:44

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2007-05-10 21:40

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2007-05-11 03:17

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2007-05-11 21:23

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2007-05-12 02:07

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2007-05-11 22:24

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2007-05-12 02:23

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2007-05-12 04:05

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2007-05-12 06:23

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