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 Re: Windows in oboe reeds
Author: Craig Matovich 
Date:   2006-12-02 23:36

CJW, You call it rambling. I call it a good answer.

I appreciate the discource. And to also answer Susan, no, I did not get a very detailed answer from my first teacher about windows. Or perhaps I don't remember it well.

I was only 12 years old then, and it was my first year of reed making.

I am now 51... and still at it. Like you, Susan, I notice in old good reeds certain patterns and offset windows, or narrower 'scraped gouges' in their place is someting I see there.

Per CJWright's notes, I do tend toward a small tip opening for the most part, tend to prefer 10.5 - 11.0 mm cane diameters, not for the sound but because I associate them with more even scales of pitch. To get more volume, I use a shorter reed and a concept of maximum vibrancy at non-nodal points of reed excitation... (sorry, but thats how I describe it after 20 years of IT work and lots of statistical projects. Perhaps a topic for another thread?)

I get a higher yield of performance quality reeds with good projection and good response but they do tend to have relatively short lives compared to reeds with larger openings.

Keep 'em coming. I still love this reed talk after all these years.

-Craig

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