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Re: Scaping question...

Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-01-16 12:31

OK -- here's an excerpt from the Jay Light book:

Step 5 - Sharpen your knife!

Step 6 - The Back - . . . About nine millimeters behind the definition of the tip and the hump, again working on the right side of the blade, start a couple of short, tight scrapes without follow-through, so that the catch is created about seven millimeters back. Work at the same angle as before, abouty thirty-five to forty degrees. Lengthen each stroke back until you get back to about four millimeters from the beginning of the string. Be sure that each stroke is completed all the way up to the catch. You should get an accumulation of shavings right at the catch. Remove these by scraping gently crossways over the reed.

Do the same scrape on the left side. Then repeat the whole process on the other blade. What you've created is what we'll call the 'windows'.

(Jay Light, The Oboe Reed Book, c 1983, p. 75f.)

The text is accompanied by illustrations. This book is still available, as far as I know. I think I got mine from Gary Van Cott, Van Cott Information Services (Google it). Gary advertizes and participates on the Clarinet Board, and carries an unusual selection of single- and double-reed literature.

Susan

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