Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2011-09-12 22:31
Susan,
I have never consciously focused on that sensation of vibration as a variable in evaluating reeds.
Interesting idea. We can use all the help we can get.
Along the lines of a couple other posts I think you are really describing responsiveness.
If a reed is in the neighborhood and just a little too stuffy, I like David Weber's advice pg 96 - Part Three Adjusting the response for its area 2-4 notations.
If you use his numbered areas, 1 - 4 , try solving inversely to your 1 - 10, so 10 is stuffiest, needs Weber's #1 solution, etc. And walk it down the scale, use his 2 for 9 - 8, his 3 for your 6 -7, etc.
Look closely at his diagram. In between his 2 and 3 areas the heart comes to a point. That area between his 2 and 3, I dust very lightly as a nearly final adjustment to get more life, not resolve grosser stuffiness. Its an amazingly small amount of cane right off the widow's peak, then his number 4, extreme tip gets thinned by knife for about 1/3 mm, sometimes less. I used to use silicone paper for this, but the knife works better.
Look closely at the pics of reeds and really study those areas. I still do that frequently, and continue to learn things.
And that final scrape at the extreme tip usually does not lower the pitch. I sometimes do a final tip clip before sometimes after the extreme tip thinning.
And use a straight cut for more response or an offset clip to put a little more resistance in the tip.
As you know from seeing how I do it, I don't clip with a razor and have very good results with these techniques. (Don't feel like arguing that point with others though.)
Good for you. Keep on... creative thinking for oboe is a wonderful thing!
![[toast]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley15.gif) - edited to amend with the favored salutation
-Craig
Post Edited (2011-09-13 14:08)
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