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Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2011-02-14 13:57
Weather and climate do play a HUGE role on a reed's performance. When people talk about where to find the best reed maker, I like to mention finding one who lives in the same weather conditions!
There is also that beginner oboes (the actual instruments) are just plain HORRID! Linton is bad Selmer Bundy is hell-spawn and I'm sure others can't be great either.
You're a teacher, so I'm sure I'm just re-stating the obvious, but, beginning players just don't have a clue about sustaining the sound. This really compounds the rest. There is also a strange phenomena, flutes and clarinets (and the rest of the band) don't necessarily play greatly in tune either, but somehow oboes tend to stick out more...
What I'd recommend is that you find someone who can play oboe in tune (I've seen your name here before, but I don't remember if you play) and try reeds until you find some that play very sharp and provide those. You can then have students pull them out a little if they play overly sharp. I don't recommend learning to make reeds yourself unless you're a decent+ oboist: that is a huge effort. But I'm sure you can find makers that will custom make sharp reeds for you.
I would, however, get in touch with classes in Europe (see the Howarth and Rigoutat web-sites) and ask how they are doing with their special very young oboe classes. Maybe Philly-style reeds are too sensitive for very young beginners.
Best of luck!
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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2011-02-14 23:22 |
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