Author: Bobo
Date: 2007-08-07 14:05
Chris, speaking of cleaning the pads, what's the best way to deal with a sticky first octave pad? I put cig paper under it when in storage, but in humid weather like this sometimes the pad stays down a nanosecond after depression. How do you clean a pad?
Naylor also puts olive oil and don't know what else in there (vitamin E, for example)..it's a pricey concoction! I think he's more attuned to the cracking thing because apparently Denver weather is extremely dry much of the year, so the stresses on oboes are greater...is that right, Craig? Covey recommended oiling a new oboe every day in an interview about 20 years ago with Nora Post, but his website now seems much more neutral on the whole subject:
"If you decide to oil the bore of the oboe, we recommend sweet almond oil or sweet olive oil. Some oboists believe that new softer wood instruments, such as rosewood and violet wood, should be oiled often, possibly monthly or weekly at first. Grenadilla wood is not oiled nearly as often, possibly once a year, starting after the oboe is several years old. Oiling, whether to do so and how often to do so, is strictly a matter of preference and opinion, so it is your call! We do not make a recommendation, except to say that if you send your instrument to us for servicing, we'll be glad to assess whether it needs oiling or not." - from the Covey website
Post Edited (2007-08-07 15:21)
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