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Author: johnt
Date: 2009-08-20 19:06
Agree with you, Drew. The Dan Ross is an amazing machine. He's an amazing guy. Thing makers usually are. We, the tinkerers with their things, sometimes are not. Reminds me of the old vaudeville joke about the rabbit who kept washing his thing. He couldn't do a hair with it. Groaners aside, I've used the Innoledy, the Dan Ross & the RDG. I sold the RDG. Too fickle. However, I did get OK reeds from it. The Innoledy gives me good playable reeds & Bravo to Tong Cui for putting this revelationary machine on the market. The Dan Ross IMHO results in a deeper, warmer, fuller sound, especially in the bottom of the register F down to B flat. This is totally subjective, of course. Dan would say it's the curve of the gouger blade.
John Mack could make reeds out of cedar shakes. Whatever he did he made them work. I asked him once how he did it & his response was totally in character: "John, I don't know; I just do it." A couple of nanoseconds later, he was working on another student's reed, making that one work. Of course it's the knife, of course it's the gouge & the shape & the oboe & the embouchure & the finger dexterity: all these variables contribute. I think there are two hards & fasts, though, a scary sharp knife (which I get using the Nielsen wedge knife & sheets of wet/dry sandpaper glued to thick plate glass intermixed with ceramic minisharps from Mark Chudnow & my trusty burnisher from from the folks at Sheffield in the UK) AND a gouger properly adjusted & properly sharpened of one's choosing: mine being the Dan Ross. As John Mack was fond of saying, Do you like Irish whiskey (thrice distilled) or Scotch whisky (twice distilled)? oh, look, they're even spelled differently. But the result is the same; a warm glow as long as ye sip a wee dram & not too much too often. Oh, & I almost forgot; doesn't hurt to have the David Weber 1B shaper tip either.
My 2 Euros/ha'pennys.
Best,
john
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