Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2011-04-19 19:23
Mark,
I wish my video camera was better at fine detailed closeups, but alas.
I do American scrape, RDG gouge and Brannen - X shape tied on 46 mm Glotin tubes.
I fond the reeds a little too resistant the first 2 days, and try to ease them on day three, so after playing 5 - 15 minutes on day 1 and day 2.
The Weber advice about dusting small areas is something I do, then if more freedom is needed, I do what I call the windshield wiper scrape.
You know, old fashioned ones that pushed water away center to left on the left, and center to right on the right.
The knife is placed perpendicular to the start of the heart and I wipe away cane all the way out to the corners, sometimes in 3-4 consecutive strokes, with each stroke replacing the knife 1/2 mm closer to the tip.
Then a small tip clip and the thinning of the extreme tip 1/2 mm or so until the click of knife hitting plague becomes very quiet.
This all assumes the reed is nearly finished, back channels well defined and heart/plateau is near to its final thickness.
If I must perform at really high altitudes, I usually also need to thin down the entire plateau again, just dusting off a little more cane. I live at 6800 ft, but sometimes play above 10,000. Things tend to get rather tight up there in the clouds.
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