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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2003/09

From: Jennifer Paull <jennifer.paull@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Re: Oboe Reeds Strength
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 04:24:23 -0400

Dear Sameer,

Your questions are all very good ones. However, their joint combination
is like saying "How do
I become an astronaut/nuclear physicist/architect; please teach me
everything I need to know
by email".

It just isn't possible! One needs lessons in order to learn. It takes a
long time to understand what
there is to be mastered. One cannot appreciate at the outset just how
much there is waiting to
be understood. One doesn't possess the skill to realise simply because
one is interested or has
embarked upon the journey to awareness. Time and experimentation plus
the slow process of
assimilating the necessary experience are what gives each person
his/her individual answer.

One can only do so much by email, even with the best will in the world.
I know my own
answers to your questions, but the who point is, you have to realise
you must find your
own too. You need basic guidelines. There are some videos available,
but there is nothing
like the advice of a teacher in person. Reeds follow different schools
of thought and different
fashions - mostly through geography and often misplaced idealism.
Flexibility is know to few.

Is it really impossible for you to get to a teacher? Where are you?

Jennifer

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a
lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. -Samuel Johnson,
lexicographer (1709-1784)

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Jennifer Paull,
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
Rare music at the press of an oboe and a computer key
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On Monday, September 1, 2003, at 09:48 am, Sameer Al-Abdullah wrote:

>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if someone can tell me about oboe reeds strength. What
> make the reeds we make/buy soft or medium or hard? Is it the gouging
> process or the scraping or both?
>
> If I buy gouged shaped and folded cane will i be able to control the
> strength of the reeds during the scraping process? And if so which
> part of the reed controls it? the tip??
>
> And finaly what does the shape of the cane affect? I saw some cane
> thats narrow and some thats a bit wide. Anyone knows anythign about
> this???
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
> Sameer Al-Abdullah
>
>
> =and I miss you like the desert miss the rain
>

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