Author: hautbois francais
Date: 2011-03-19 12:53
Susan says:
"IMO, it is pretty helpful to already have had a few years' experience with playing and adjusting reeds before you start trying to make them. It is hard enough to make a reed when you know what you want it to look and sound like. When you don't actually have a pretty good grasp of how the reed functions and what makes it do one thing or another, I fear reedmaking could be insurmountably difficult."
Yep, I totally agree....and u need to know what kind of sound you want to get out of your reeds when u start making them for your own use. If you are new to oboe, I'd just experiment and buy from a few sources. The sites recommended here, some have demo clips, choose the sound u like and buy from that source initially. Then you can experiment on the ones u bought and try to alter them. That was how I started some many many many years ago...back then, u just had to chance what u buy and depended on recommendations from others, or spend many hours a a store trying practically all their reeds until you find the one u like and actually make a purchase.
OboeCraig is right on about a sharp knife being everything in reed making. Learn to sharpen a kitchen knife, using the procedures for sharpening a reed knife, before experimenting on the expensive reed knife, would be my advice. If you can cut razor thin frozen beef or fish like "butter" using a meat or fish slicing knife with a double bevel edge, then u are ready to do a reed knife.
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