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Re: Octave box inserts

Author: cjwright
Date: 2010-02-19 20:16

Hi there,
There's a few differences that I think need to be noted.

Short scraped reeds have very stable high F to As because if the extra cane in the back. American scraped reeds scrape windows to relax the opening in the back/throat area and to gain depth and darkness in the tone. Short scraped reedsuse a gouge that has thinner sides so their openings aren't gigantic. (If someone tried to scrape an American scrape on a Short scrape gouge the top would be too saggy.) Since short scraped reeds don't get depth from windows. They generally use wider shaped to get fullness and cover with the embouchure more.

Tuning differences between an oboe for an American scrape player vs a short scrape player are quite different. Besides the middle Cs which are totally different, the high A to C is tuned much higher which offsets the wider shape as well. This is generally done with undercutting. I question whether your instrument was tuned with an. With a European or an American in mind.

Octave vents are a very tricky. Obviously they need to be open enough to play the high notes be if they are too open they won't play anything high. If you get it too open then you can fill the hole with sauder and redrill the correct size but know that BIGGER does not necessarily mean BETTER and there is a cap as to how big you can go. If the problem is as serious as you say it is, I would assume that octave vents wouldn't be enough.

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