Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2010-02-18 16:02
Hello J,
Of course i am not offended! I am so glad that i receive response so quickly and that there are people interested in helping me reach my goals. Isn't it amazing that so much information can travel around so quickly.
Anyways, i...
-play on a new, unmodified Buffet Greenline
-have attempted using Glotin 47mm staples, resulting in flat flat flat
-not taught to use American scrape, tried just for the sake of experimentation on different types of reeds. I am a full time short scrape player.
-since all the students in my studio play my reeds sharp, i definitely have a relaxed embouchure, not overly, to be sure, because i have had good oboe players try my reeds and say nothing bad about them in terms of pitch (not on the buffet of course)
-Tuning standards in your country are A=442, yupe.
Good suggestions J. I suspect that in the past i make reeds that are too flat, bite them up to pitch, and fail to bite up the upper register in combination with staples (Chiarugi 2, Klopfer D12 etc) that don't help in the 2nd octave. I tried shortening the above staples but that didnt help the upper register much. I know the Glotin has a big internal volume and apparently brings up the 2nd octave because of the shape of the neck so perhaps a short Glotin...makes sense?
Follow up question, do you think that, with your way of making reeds, that as long as the internal volume stays the same, theoratically whatever shape you use the reed will react the same? I don't overlap of course so my reeds have much bigger internal volumes compared to American scraped reeds, but these ideas should apply...For example if i use 47mm Glotin staple with an XN shape and assuming that it produces a volume of X, and i use a 45mm Glotin staple with a -2 shape and let us assume that it too produces a volume of X, would the reed play or react basically the same assuming all other variables are unchanged?
Thanks for your kind words in the beginning of your post J. You know Albrecht doesn't play on Buffet oboes anymore, well, to be sure he endorses Ludwig Frank oboes...but most people thinks that he sounds less good now...at least on this clip he sounds less good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtMqtfIgnxk, in my honest opinion. Still amazing playing of course, but...notice the straight bell d'amore, amazing!
When there is a will, there is a way! There must be!
Howard
p.s. Today i played through the Albinoni d minor concerto in a lesson with a pianist, made it to the last page, and almost forgot where my lips were after that. Apparently, i sounded good. It was a reed from a reputable maker in the UK. Yes, i still had to bite and at the end i over compensated and started to play sharp...
Post Edited (2010-02-18 16:05)
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