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Re: lifting your first finger?

Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-09-07 23:15

It depends if the top plate opens fully or is screwed down so it only just moves. In the UK we normally have the top plate screwed almost shut so we normally lift LH 1 instead of rolling down to uncover the diamond.

On cors with the split top plate, the lower part controls the pad and we normally have that screwed almost closed. But most French oboes don't have the screw adjustment on their cors, so it's normal to have an adjusting screw fitted to French cors sold in the UK (or find the player wedges the top plate closed with a piece of cork).

The amount the top plate is screwed down depends on the size of the diamond aperture - there's more movement if the diamond is small as opposed to it beign screwed almost closed if the diamond is large (eg. Selmer Bundy oboes have a huge diamond).

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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