Author: EaubeauHorn
Date: 2008-03-22 16:10
Thanks for the insight and advice; it hadn't occurred to me that the best backup would be an oboe with more or less exactly the same key layout (a plastic or part-plastic Rigoutat) and the entire concept of different oboes liking different reeds is new to me. (Although as a horn player I'm well aware that different horns like different mouthpiece cups.)
Since my teacher plays exactly the same model Rigoutat as I do, when she makes reeds for me (she is an angel) of course they work on my instrument. If she played a different make, well, I now see that might not be true.
On reed-making, I have a different question. I've been in the learning process for a couple of months, and just ordered my second batch of cane. I got it from a different source because I wanted slightly less wide reeds. The part of the reed that will become the tip, was not shaped to match the rest of the reed...not sure how to describe it. It appears that I'd be expected to shape the last few mm of the tip myself (it is a couple of mm wider than the rest of the reed, on both sides, definitely not like my first batch of cane, which was shaped at the tip.) I tied up a couple of them to take to my lesson and ask about, but maybe I can get some answers here ahead of time. What am I supposed to do to shape the tip? My instinct is to, heh, put it on a sander and just shape the sides so they are flat, but something tells me that is not the standard way of dealing with this.
Kindest regards,
EBH
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