Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-10-16 21:47
You know...to heck with the crow.
To work, the reed needs a certain feel in our mouths. It should play in tune without biting, without sagging...it should allow us to play loudly, softly, and articulate in all registers. The only way to find out if the reed can do this is to *******play it in the oboe*********
If notes are honking out, and the pitch is everywhere, or you have to bite to keep high notes in tune, it really doesn't matter if the reed is crowing C. I've had perfectly good reeds that crow a stable "B" that felt much better than an unstable "C"-crowing reed.
I also have reeds that work well and crow C#.
Of course, you can use the crow to figure out what isn't right in the reed, at any pitch.
-Cleaning up loose rattling noise
-checking for instabilities: pitch falling down/pitch flying up
-listening for tippy distortions (chirps, shrilling...etc)
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