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Author: Bucky Badger
Date: 2003-12-31 02:43
Years ago my oboe instructor and I used to go along the banks of the Trinity River in Fort Worth Texas. Cane was growing there---good news. Also good news was my instructor could turn the raw cane into gouged and folded can. From that point on I had the knife and etc to work on the reeds.
The bad news was the cane in texas was green and the reed only lasted about 1 week of steady playing; then I need a new reed.
If your folks have plenty of money forget making reeds. If you buy a less than perfect reed you may need the knife etc AND guidance. One wrong move and you cannot put wood back on the reed.
Try a variety of reeds and see what make you like. When I was playing in the university back in the late 1960s I played on both the french cut (long scrape you find in stores now) and the german scrape (the tip scraped and a lot of the reed unscraped). I finally desided the french medium reed gave me control and the right sound.
I met too many player spending all their time scraping and not enough time practicing.
jim buchholz
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