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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000094.txt from 2003/09

From: Jennifer Paull <jennifer.paull@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Oboe tip-scraping
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:07:43 -0400

Hello George,

On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 09:37 pm, George Young wrote:

> Jennifer,
> =A0
> One small point=A0concerning your valuable information.=A0 It seems clear

> that you are talking about finished tip thicknesses in the range of .7

> to .8 hundredths of a millimeter, or rather .007-.008 mm.=A0

You are correct.

> That's very thin indeed!

Yes, but immediately behind that, it's about 45. I have a cliff surface

rising up like the white
cliffs of Dover. I fact, that's what dear Derek Bell called them, as he

played upon my reeds.
No, I don't make them for others any more, I'm not advertising myself
as a red maker :-)

> =A0 We always knew there were added aspects to shaping the sound of the

> oboe d'amore!

My reed isn't made for the oboe. In fact, I don't own an oboe. The oboe

d'amore is my
speciality so I worked out that instead of making an oboe reed a bit
bigger - I'd find
out what the instrument needed to be itself. I don't base anything I do

upon the concept
that the oboe is the "main" instrument of the oboe family. For me, I am

an alto oboist,
and my perspective is from that optic.

It then becomes a totally different kettle of aruno donax.

This doesn't mean that you can't play the d'amore on other reeds in
other styles. It just
means that I started from zero and made something to suit the
instrument and what I
wanted to do with it in modern music as well as baroque. I don't adhere

to any official
"school". I made my own :-)

I'm extremely bad at being conventional :-)

Jennifer

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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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