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Re: Gouge and opening.

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2010-06-26 12:24

I have to agree with HautboisJJ.
Playing the oboe is a pleasure, not painful and making reeds really is easy. O.K. IT IS MUCH HARDER than the saxophone (no offense people, but its true). Nonetheless with just a little more devotion and love, the oboe will reward you more than you will reward it.

I haven't had time to fill-in the details yet, but take a look at my web-site:
http://robin-hautbois.users.sourceforge.net/

I don't know your level of experience, but many on this site are professionals or at that level and asking each other advanced questions.

This forum and any printed materials or DVD will never replace a living teacher actually looking at your reeds. This teacher will naturally lead you in her/his style of reed making.... which might not actually be the one for you.... but at least you'll have a good start. One important reason for this discrepency is that body physionomy is a huge factor in why one person's reeds are very different from another's.

Some will react against the following, but I maintain that making oboe reeds is easy. It's a matter of understanding the physics and applying them without any degree of exception. For example, regardless of the scraping style I used - yes I have done American scrape in the past - there are 2 things about tying (binding) the reeds that are absolute musts:
1. NEVER tie past the end of the staple (pull the cane down as much as needed)
2. "slipping" (sideways overlapping) of the blades has always resulted for me in choking reeds with soggy response and limited dynamic range.

Also, I don't know how well founded this is or if its just coincidental, but most of my acquaintances and I agree that making reeds on a rainy day is a waste of time and cane.

So my encouragements - don't get discouraged and you'll get it!

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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