Author: DrewSorensenMusic
Date: 2012-03-29 14:16
To Loree BF51: I do believe the best term for in between the Tip and Heart is the "Blend". It seems to be the most commonly used term, although I've only been studying oboe for 6 months.
On the subject of Response and Tone, would the two terms be the same thing, or at least directly related? When I adjust reeds (on single reeds and oboe), what helps me is thinking of the reed like a sound engineer thinks of recording. The tip is the high frequencies (maybe above 8,000 hz), the front heart is the hiss area (4,000 to 8,000 hz), back heart (2,000 to to 4,000 hz), and the back is everything below 2,000 hz. (I'm still working on the this principle, so don't believe I'm 100% correct on the notion, just food for thought) So if I have a bit of hiss in my sound, I scrape the front heart, and it will gradually diminish. If my notes aren't speaking in the low register, I could scrape more in the windows or take some from the back heart, depending on at what note the problem starts.
And I guess the more cane on one of these areas, the more that area projects. So if you need more clarity, you may have to take cane from the back and tip and maybe even a little from the back heart. At that you would have essentially added cane to the front heart, thus adding a bit more clarity to the sound. If you're not projecting, maybe taking cane from the back and back heart, and maybe even a little from the front heart, thus adding more cane to the tip to cut through the orchestra.
Tone is effected by so many things, it's probably best just to adjust response, and then change how you sit, or how you hold your instrument, or where you place your air, etc... to create these tonal varitions. I think maybe the reed should be best balanced for flexibility, then you change everything else internally.
Drew
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