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Re: cane cracking

Author: myoboe
Date: 2009-01-28 15:10

Thankyou very much for your responses, interesting that you mention "aperture gape". This is the first time I have heard of it and I have just noticed that some of my old finished reeds (which obviously are dried) have very wide openings and the sides have come apart (open down to about one and a half cm), is that what I am seeing "aperture gape" ? Can they still be used, or they should just go into the bin ?

Forrests is also where I am getting my GSF cane from, I have purchased the Hand Select processed cane and the Rigotti regular shape cane. The staples purchased are Forrests/Stevens #1 Oboe Staple, Brass, 47mm which is natural cork. Can you comment on whether this combination of staple and cane is suitable ? The Hand Select cane is narrower than the Rigotti cane and seems to suit my oboe better (mine is a Yamaha YOB841 which according to the specification is optimized to match "American" style reeds.)

As a beginner, I am really overwhelmed by the choices of reed, cane and staples. Don't think it is possible to try them all out.

Forrests sells three types of thread, I have used them all and found that the Tex 138 / 165 yard spool is the strongest. The other two breaks too often when I pull hard during tying, did you have the same problem before ?

In Hong Kong here, only the bigger musical stores sell oboe reeds. However, the trouble is they are out of stock quite often. Sometimes they have stock but not the medium soft type. I bought some medium ones before but could not make even one sound out of it. Even when the stores have medium soft reeds, the quality is not very consistent. I recently bought two (cost about US$11 each), one closed up after about 3 sessions of practice and the other one was flat. There is no brand name on the casing, but the shopkeeper said it was from "UMI", think in the US. The store keeps getting their oboe reed from different suppliers, I had bought from that store reeds from Prestini and Rico before, the storekeeper said those suppliers could not supply them anymore.

Since the HK$ is pegged to the US$, exchange fluctuations do not affect me much.

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