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 Re: Ralph Gomberg Reed Adjustment Chart
Author: Oboehotty 
Date:   2013-04-15 16:11

I think much of "adjustments" are a result of your personal method for making reeds. Personally, I use a combination of the David Weber and Joe Shalita approach (both GREAT reed making manuals by the way). A good friend is a direct descendant of the John Mack approach to scraping reeds. She cannot play on one of my reeds (cannot physically get a sound) and I cannot physically play on one of hers. That being said, I would not use my adjustments to get certain aspects of a reed on one of her reeds and visa versa. So, I think it goes back to what works for each individual.

Based on the photos in the Ledet book and some others of Gomberg's reeds, they were very different in structure than what most of us have learned over the past so many years and therefore his adjustments probably won't give the same results on a...shall I say "more structured" reed? Just a thought...

I have always been taught that there isn't one particular adjustment for any reed that will yield the same result. One must know how a reed functions and what part of the reed gives certain qualities/parts to the crow and then adjust based on what you hear from the crow using physics. Just as we won't make the same reed for a Laubin oboe as we would a Loree, etc. No two reeds will respond the same way to specific scraping ideas and adjustments.

Every time we make a scrape there is a positive AND a negative reaction to something else in the reed. Reeds are all about balance friends :-)
Shawn

Professor of Oboe - Youngstown State University
Howland Local Schools - MS Dir. Of Bands/HS Asst. Dir (Marching, Symphonic)

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