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Re: Robinson Shape

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2012-04-09 13:20

I am becoming confused with what people call a "vibrant reed". For me, vibrant means a harsh crow... seriously sounding like a raven cawking. To my taste, I find these reeds much more responsive and have huge dynamic ranges.... they just take my air with less effort and more comfort.

For years, Philly scrape reeds I have made, tried and heard others crow and play sound more like a wheeze. Now, Chip Hamann at Ottawa's NAC Orchestra has reeds that sound this way, but his dynamic range just blows me away: from true pp to true fff.

But as for cold/warm sound in short-scrape: scraping the sides more and leaving a strong center line with a well scraped tip can give as warm a sound as any reed with windows..... unless we are using the words differently: there was a long thread on that last year!!!!

Here's an example of what I call a warm dark sound... though it maitains a very lively quality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6GyvYCNjuQ

I find Italians are becoming rather fantastic oboe soloists. Absolutely without any doubt, he does short-scrape. There is curiosity in Italy over American scrape (long with windows), but people hardly use it at all.

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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