Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-12-03 00:23
Clare, I think you'll still sound British playing an American long W scrape reed as you'll still be making your sound with your embouchure, though you may find the American scrape reed does some things better/worse/different to the European U scrape. It's best to try it out to see how you get on, though as with oboe reeds, it's an expensive thing to do. For a while I used an American scrape Fox cor reed - it looked fairly crude, but it was dead easy to get on with.
It's like clarinet or sax players with several different mouthpieces, all with different tonechambers - you can still tell it's the same player from their sound even though they're playing on a different mouthpiece. They may feel how one mouthpiece compares to another, but anyone listening may not hear much of a difference, even if the player finds each mouthpiece plays slightly differently.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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