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Re: reed making

Author: vboboe
Date: 2009-02-14 06:36

think you know the right thing for you, but it's good for us that you want to talk it over :-)

can't play oboe well enough to please oneself if don't practice regularly, so that's time priority #1 and an hour a day is certainly essential to maintain basic playing condition

but, there are 7 days in a week and could still stay in shape if only play on 6 days -- so why not choose a regular 'no-play' day each week when you know you'll have a full hour (rather than 3 periods of 20 minutes) and devote that hour to tying more blanks to build up a good supply, or adjusting ready-mades that aren't working quite right for you?

ready-made reeds are easily available nowadays, although the expense is certainly a reason for considering DIY, but since you're working, the expense is probably less of a concern than finding enough time to learn how to cut reeds

you must really want to do this if you say you're arranging for lessons, but the reality of crash courses is the theory will go in one ear and out the other if you don't apply yourself to hand-skills right away for many months and continue to self-learn by doing-doing-doing until you've 'got it' and can finally make playable reeds most of the time -- IMO you definitely would need to commit yourself to a year of reed-making lessons at least twice a month to make the effort worthwhile and be rewarded with success

with your time so full of doing things for everybody else, it does seem you need more leisure & pleasure time for yourself, and rightly so, feel no guilt whatsoever about looking out for your own best interests first

so maybe it's high time you scheduled yourself 90 minutes of personal pleasure for oboe & reed stuff every day? :-)

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