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Author: oboedrew
Date: 2009-07-30 19:08
Jay,
Congrats on the purchases. That's a good gouge and a good shape. You can't go wrong with either.
One piece of advice: when your reeds turn out wrong, don't be too quick to blame the gouge or the shape. They make great scapegoats, but knife technique is usually at fault.
In hindsight, I know I would've mastered reedmaking faster had I been more critical of my own scraping and less suspicious of this or that gouge or shape. But that's what we oboists are taught to do: pass the buck, blame the gouge or blame the shape, try a different setup and hope the problem disappears.
Whatever setup you use, some oboist will come along and tell you it's all wrong. But there's always somebody else out there making good reeds with the allegedly inadequate setup.
So I think you're on the right track. Start with your teacher's setup and learn to gouge and shape. But your knife technique is by far the most important aspect of reedmaking.
Cheers,
Drew
www.oboedrew.com
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