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Re: Favorite store-bought/online reeds?

Author: oboedrew
Date: 2009-03-03 19:45

vboboe wrote:

> LOL it's silly season again, is this cabin fever, SADD or what
> ???
>
> ... whittling certainly isn't the only way one can develop fine
> motor skills with a knife, whoever got the mistaken impression
> it was? {:-o
>
> It's just AN EXAMPLE

There is nothing silly about this topic. Perhaps you don't teach? To those of us who routinely teach beginning reedmaking, this is a reasonable concern. Too often students are afraid to start reedmaking because they've visited forums such as this and read careless statements such as "Pre-requisite -- demonstrated ability in gross & fine motor skills using knives."

Nowadays, young oboists' views are often shaped by online resources for several years before they begin private lessons. The suggestion that all knife skills are roughly equivalent and that experience with any sort of blade prepares one for reedmaking is not helpful to teachers.

Knives most often cut. Reedmakers scrape. The motion of the blade is fundamentally different. The method of sharpening is fundamentally different. Even the goal is fundamentally different. When whittling, the goal is to make an object LOOK a certain way. But the looks of a reed are of secondary importance. And we're talking distant second here. The goal is to make the reed vibrate a certain way.

Whittling does no more than painting to prepare one for reedmaking. Psychologically, a squeamish or timid student may benefit from having handled a blade in the past. But we must not confuse this psychological edge with skill.

Cheers,
Drew

www.oboedrew.com

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