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Blending in, in France?

Author: MudLily
Date: 2013-05-13 14:51

I am an American amateur player, working in France for 2 years. I joined a community orchestra (to help maintain sanity), and the other oboe player vetoed my American scrape reeds as sounding too open.

I bought some French scrape reeds, but some other threads here made me think that I might need to change my embouchure or other aspects of playing. My embouchure for my American reeds is pucker-like. Do I need to do something different to get the proper sound from the short scrape reeds?

Also, the reed I bought in a local store sounds stuffy to me (the Berthelot reeds haven't arrived yet). I would scrape just behind the heart to fix that stuffiness in an American scrape reed, but perhaps it is not supposed to be fixed for the desired sound?

Any advice on these issues would be greatly appreciated.

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