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Re: Reed Making is Performance, not Preparation

Author: robertargoe
Date: 2015-04-27 05:22

You might consider other than the American scrape. It's been written several times that one must fill a laundry basket with mistakes before one really gets the knack of making American scrape reeds. Unless you are going to dedicate your life to oboe playing at a high level, you will spend a lot of treasure and frustration chasing the white rabbit - so to speak.
In other parts of the world, the long - or American scrape, is not revered as it is here. Consider also that Europe has many oboe soloists that are widely appreciated and I doubt they use the American scrape.
Check out the European, or short scrape. Once you learn how to tie-on and create a good blank, the short scrape can be learned pretty well without all the grief.

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