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Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-03-16 23:24
It depends (really) on how sharp your knife is. It should always be very sharp. (Not that is tears up the cane, but so that it has an edge that removes cane without having to push down). However, 10-15 minutes is the average time I usually spend on the first roughing out stage.
Since you're beginning I might recommend having maybe 5 reeds that you are working on, and only work on each one for 5-6 minutes at a time. That way, if things aren't working, you only waste 5 minutes instead of an hour. It will take you longer to get your first reed this way, but then it builds up your reed stores.
I wouldn't worry too much about time - don't rush anything. What I would do is -as above - make sure to stop working after 5 minutes. Set an alarm to remind you, get up, stretch, sharpen your knives, and move on to another reed.
For the thin crow...The thing I noticed with most beginners is that they aren't aware as to how much cane really has to come off before the adjusting process begins. Make sure that you're scraping the heart enough so you can see the grain (there shouldn't be any pale bark left) and get the tip nice and thin. Your crow should be really loose and rattly and crow somewhere around a G. Then you can start defining (making the tip more obviously seperated from the heart) and thinning the tip, and finally taking EXTREMELY small clips in order to bring the reed up to pitch. If, after several (4) small clips the pitch doesn't go up very much, define more, and thin the very edges and end of the tip. What you want to avoid is clipping too much in the beginning.
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my58vw |
2006-03-16 20:53 |
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d-oboe |
2006-03-16 23:24 |
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vboboe |
2006-03-17 03:10 |
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HautboisJJ |
2006-03-17 03:51 |
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vboboe |
2006-03-18 04:00 |
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