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 Re: Favorite store-bought/online reeds?
Author: oboedrew 
Date:   2009-03-04 01:33

I too did a bit of carving as a child: only with wood, never with soap. If carving soap involves more of a scraping motion, then we may be at least within the same chapter, though not quite on the same page.

But I think we must be cautious when basing pedagogical precepts on anecdotal evidence. Hence my earlier remarks about confusing correlation with causation. A quick analogy below, and then I must get back to my own reedmaking!

I played the clarinet for a year before picking up the oboe. I could claim that my prior experience with the clarinet helped me with oboe fingerings. But I also played the violin and the piano, and I played a lot of video games, and I learned to type, and so on and so forth. There's not much reason to give credit to the clarinet, except that it bears a superficial resemblance to the oboe. Yet for that reason alone, many well-intentioned music educators make the mistake of requiring a year or two on the clarinet before switching students to the oboe. It's the same sort of logical fallacy that leads to the equation of whittling with reedmaking.

Anyway, looks like we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. I must pull myself away from this wonderful debate and knock out a couple more reeds before bed.

Cheers,
Drew

www.oboedrew.com

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