How to care for an oboe and his rods?

The double cane: how to remove it well

The oboe's cane are two very thin cane sheets, tied with yarn to a metal tubito with cork. It only vibrates if it's moist but if it gets more drenched, it loses response and sounds heavy.

1. Filling with clear water at room temperature.
2. The cane will only be put up to the thread. The cork should not get wet: it will be swollen and then doesn't suit well with the oboe.
3. Let her have two or three minutes and with time you'll notice how much she wants every cane and the newest ones often require a little more.
4. Take care of the excess water and check that the end has a fine and matching opening.
5. Do sound only the cane before put it: it should give a vibrant sound (the so-called cackling) without much effort.

Many oboists prefer to purify in water and not in their mouth, because saliva leaves food remains and sugars that purify their cane and favor their fungi. Filling them into their mouth serves as an emergency.

If the cane closes or opens

The cane reacts to climate and height. It can be closed (the tip nearly gets together and the sound gets drowned) or more open (it requires a lot of air and costs monitoring). A cane that worked in Bogotá can behave differently on hot ground and the other way around, and so the oboists who travel carry several tested rods. No blade scrape on your own: tipping rods is an office that you learn with guide. If with [interminer]](/herramientas/afinador) That a cane keeps you high or low throughout the record and takes her to class.

How to save and rotate rods

• At the end, rinse the cane with clear water and blow gently from the cork's side to get the water out.
• Keep it in a box of ventilated rods, where each of them gets held up by the tipple and the tip doesn't touch anything.
• In wet climate, let them dry up before closing the case: a wet cane in a closed space is a mushroom.
• Do not use the plastic tube that comes with the cane every day. It does not let them ventilate.
• Do not put cleanes and objects at the top: the opening gets worse. If your teacher uses some internal cleaning method, teach them in class.
• Don't leave the cane loose in the oboe's case or a pocket: the tipple will be tipped with any pounding.

Having a single cane is the safest way to stay out of touch just before an essay. Keep three or four in use and put them up to date: each resting and seawattering and with a backrest. Numerate them and write them up in your notebook as soon as you started using each one.

Oboe cleaning after playing

The water that condenes itself inside the oboe tends to get into small holes, especially those with octave keys. That's why the oboe always dries, even if you have only touched ten minutes.

1. Take the cane first and put it back.
2. Separates the upper body from the lower with a smooth turn without pressing the bridge keys that connect both bodies. Then remove the bell.
3. Check that the socket (silk or microfibre) does not have loose knots or wires.
4. He goes through each body from the narrow end to the width. He puts his weight up and his stick and his face goes down. Otherwise, his cloth can be jammed up.
5. If an atoning place with water, put absorbing paper without gum under a slipper, press the key with softness and remove it. Repeat till it gets dry.
6. Clean the keys with a dry cloth and put every piece into his place.

If you listen to a gorget or a broken note, there's usually water in an orifice. If it's followed by an octave key, discuss with your teacher: sometimes it's up to how you hold the oboe. Never put needles and pins into those orifices, they're tiny.

Timber and temperature: how to avoid cracks

The cracks appear as the inside of the wood gets hot and quickly moist with your air while the exterior remains cold. The wood expands unevenly and opens up, most often in the upper body, that's the thinner. In Bogotá this matter: a cold morning, a living room without heating or a bus ride with the case by the window are enough for the oboe to be iced by opening it.

• If the oboe's cold, warm up the upper body between your hands or under your arm a few minutes before you blow.
• When passing from a cold place to a hot place, leave the case closed for a while to be acclimated.
• He's got his case inside a cover that isolates him from the cold and from the sun.
• Don't leave him in his car, by a sunny window or by a warmer.

Many manufacturers and teachers recommend an adaptation period for a new wood oboe: short sessions at first, that are lengthened during the first few weeks, and carefully dried after each. Following the information of the manufacturer and your teacher. Resin oboes, or with the upper body lined inside, are less likely to get cracked. Logic is the same as [Clarinet care].](/blog/como-limpiar-y-cuidar-un-clarinete)and the climate of each region we treat in how to save instruments according to climate in Colombia.

Do not apply oils or products to wood on your own. If the technician considers that the tube needs them, they will do so at the review.

To arm the oboe without bending the keys

The oboe has one of the most complex mechanisms of the woods with bridge keys between the bodies and very fine tipping screws. A barely tipstick key is sufficient for a note to leave.

1. If cork joints come in hard, apply very little cork fat and clear your fingers before touching the keys.
2. Unite the bell to the lower body by pressing the key to the bell so that its connection doesn't crash.
3. Unite the upper and lower body with a smooth turn and align the bridge keys so that they have to be put to an end without pressure.
4. Put the cane at the end, pushing the cork with a smooth twist to the bottom.

Don't turn the small screws that you see in the mechanism: they control how they close their shoes with each other and move them without knowing how to mismatch the whole oboe.

What you never have to do and when to go to the tech

• Flow hot air into a cold oboe.
• Keep the wet cane in a closed tube or leave it put at the oboe.
• Pass the espbillion with a stick put or from its width to its narrow.
• Move the matching screws or fold keys to fix them.
• Wash the body with water or let them dry up in the sun.

He takes an oboe to a wood technician at least once a year, or earlier if a serious note doesn't come out, if you listen to air leaks, if you see a thin line on the wood or if a key feels loose. A shortcut found at once usually has good arrangement and if you let it go forward, it goes far more expensive.

At [oboe's class]](/clases/oboe) Your teacher checks with you his rods and his instrument as part of his weekly work and if you're still deciding, read why do you learn clarinet or oboe.

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