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 Re: Shaper tips -- changing one aspect will cause what?
Author: Oboehotty 
Date:   2012-05-13 14:39

Thanks all for the thought provoking things. This all came to me a few weeks back when one of my college students was consistently playing flat on my reeds. I subsequently made several more reeds on a more narrow shaper from my office "box of wonders". Immediately, she was able top play up to pitch. Funny thing is that I only use that particular shaper tip in the winter. Temperature was around 75 here at this time of her recital.

In grad school my prof. told me I had "chops of steel". I guess in playing professionally and making reeds for college students, sometimes I forget about all of the aspects everyone mentions as affecting reeds. Funny thing is that I live in a "Mack" heavy area, where most of the players are/were trained from Mr. Mack or a direct student of his. Myself and two other players in the immediate area are not Mack trained players (at least not directly).

I absolutely cannot find success in making my reeds on a Mack/Pfieffer tip OR a -1 tip. I have tried many times.....I have found 2 or 3 tips (Adam Tips) that work well for me and I have stuck with them for quite a while. This student issue has prompted me to experiment so that I can teach them and prepare them for further graduate studies, etc. I just want to make sure I am thinking about all of the variables that come with different dimensinos in shaper tips so I can pass the knowledge on to them. Very interesting this topic. Thanks for your replies! Keep them coming.

Shawn

Professor of Oboe - Youngstown State University
Howland Local Schools - MS Dir. Of Bands/HS Asst. Dir (Marching, Symphonic)
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