Author: oboi
Date: 2012-07-19 21:22
Hi Robert,
<snip> Your addendum already answered my question. I will try your method as well.
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Now I am questioning whether I remembered correctly my instruction a month ago and whether I am directionally-challenged. You see I am left handed and I was using the instructors' knife (he is right-handed). Knife and scraping direction aside, I was told to:
1) To get the cane to correct starting width, scrape from the middle of the cane to the folded part. When happy with that, go from the middle to the open end. Repeat for other side. Now one has a narrower straight piece of cane.
2) Gently scrape from marked point near the middle down to the throat until the tie-on width is of correct dimension. Voilà. That's it. No measuring of the belly and all by eye. Yikes!
To R. Still Student:
Yes, I know that there is now a shaper tip to try! But for beginner purposes, I think I should try what I was taught for a while before venturing off to buy a tip. Besides, I might not be playing the same type of oboe this time next year. Right now I am playing on a Stanesby and the staple is designed for it and this particular shape. And to be honest, I don't even shape my own modern cane yet. I'll probably buy my first modern shaper tip before I do the baroque!
My first impression upon returning to the modern oboe was that, "these tiny reeds are so @#$! finicky!!!!" Working on these wider shapes feels much like working on EH reeds. Lots of leeway.
Post Edited (2012-07-19 21:42)
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