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Re: Rigotti cane

Author: oboemoboe
Date: 2007-07-22 20:07

Um, it's basically the Cleveland/Johm Mack scrape, but instead of starting to scrape right at the thread, I start 4-5 mm above the thread. I find the sound more robust that way. They need a bit of breaking in, but they last longer (I play a 2h30 show each day, so they last for 3-4 shows instead of 1 or 2...). So I guess it would be a short american scrape!

It's what works for me, how I feel comfortable. I kind of have a mixed heritage... My high school teacher was a former Holliger student and played a lot in Germany before coming back to Canada (my first reeds were short scrape). My college teacher studied with a former conservatoire de Paris student and was accepted in Holliger's class, but went to Julliard instead (so I changed my scrape to the "Elaine Douvas one-reed-a-day-for- the-rest-of-your-life scrape, which taught me to turn out good playable reeds really fast and efficiently!), I think that teacher also had lessons with John Mack, but I'm not shure on that one. My Master's degree teacher studied with a great canadian oboist, then with Pierlot in Paris, and took a few lessons with John Mack, who's sound he adored. He's the one who took my long scrape and shortened it a bit. I've stuck to it for the past 5 years and it has worked wonders!

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