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Is it safe to take out my oboe?
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Fearful_and_Buggy
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Posted 4 months ago
Sun Jun 28 2009 20:14:32
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About a week ago, I sealed both of my instruments into a tub with No Pest Strip cartridge. Sometime in late July, I want to participate in community theater. That'll mark a month, give or take, of the oboes being in the tub.
I took the oboes out of their case and ensure that all three joints were exposed to the chemical air in the tub. I really doubt that the horns themselves contacted any bugs, since the horns were in snap-closed hard plastic cases, inside a cloth case (thrown out) inside a bag (also thrown out). Do you think I'm safe to play them without bugs?
...assuming the Vapona hasn't destroyed them.
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Posted 4 months ago
Mon Jun 29 2009 14:41:52
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Perhaps it's bed bug music appreciation month what with the guitars and oboes. I will tell you woodwinds, reeds and vapona make me uncomfortable. At the very least use new reeds and allow for break in if you are to perform. I would also leave it in warm sunlight in a vented area
and wipe it down well before using. Then play Flight of the Bumble Bees really fast.Good luck. -
buggyinsocal
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Posted 4 months ago
Mon Jun 29 2009 15:02:17
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Dude. A fellow oboeist. (Although to be fair, mine is still back at my mom's house, since I never finished learning how to make reeds. As a result, I didn't have to worry about this except to think "Wow, I'm glad I left my horn there because I don't want to know what 140 degree temps would do to it, the poor thing." It's already been through two major climates, and a third plus thermal seemed cruel.)
I would definitely give the horn a thorough cleaning, and like Winston, I would strongly recommend airing it out and then ditching any reeds that were in that case. And the tubes if you make your own reeds since the cork is more porous than I'd be comfortable with, esp. given how often we double-reeders wander around with those things hanging out of our mouths. I would pretty much start from scratch with the reed components.
One of the PCOs here said that it didn't leave any residue behind, but my hard sciences knowledge isn't sound enough to think about whether there might be traces of the fumigant trapped in pockets of air inside things like bamboo and cork. And given their proximity to your mouth when you play, that seems risky to me.
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I can confirm DDVP doesn't leave any residue behind.
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