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Chronic Flatness

Author: robertargoe
Date: 2015-01-20 22:14

I am a 73 year-old who played in grade school, high school and then one year in my 30s. I have tried to pick up the oboe again as a hobby with the goal of playing with a good community band made up of mostly band directors and music teachers.
I have not been able to buy or make reeds that I can play in tune with any certainty. I simply cannot make a long scrape reed w/o tearing it up. I can do the short scrape that will have good response and dynamics and sound. However at 70 mm, it will be 50 cents flat. If I keep clipping and rescraping, I can get it close to being in tune at around 67 1/2 mm, but that is taking away a lot of cane when using a 47 mm staple. I did buy an expensive American scrape reed recently that played A, Bb and F in perfect tune and was 70 mm long, But the response was anemic, the sound was muted and low D and below was impossible.
Any suggestions will be eagerly looked into.

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