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 Re: Making short scrape European style oboe reeds easy
Author: ceri 
Date:   2010-06-18 20:32

Hautbois-français
By scraping the sides I mean the sides of the reed (not the tip). My teacher occasionally slices a little off the sides (holding the reed vertically and slicing down) but I have never dared to try this.

You can rescrape everything (including the spine and the heart), if you rescrape everything evenly you will make the reed easier but at the expense of tone. (My 10-year-old daughter has just started learning the oboe and this is what her reeds are like - easy to blow but rather "quacky" tone).

I would be wary of just scraping the spine/heart as this may change the pitch of the reed.

You're right about "ears" meaning tip corners. I'm not sure that I can give you precise measurements as it depends how wide your reed is to start with. When I was learning to make reeds my teacher used to get me to draw the inverted crescent on to the reed - it is a very wide, shallow crescent. If the centre is about 2mm then the maximum depth in the corners is probably only about 4 mm.

One thing my teacher occasionally does is something that he said a French oboist who had worked in Canada for a while showed him. If you imagine your reed divided into three and the top third is the part that is scraped, then in the bottom third you can scrape two "windows." This does make some reeds easier to play but you really need someone to show you were to put them and how to angle them (and I haven't got any like that at the moment so I can't even offer to take a photo).

As others have said, the ideal thing would be for someone to show you. When I first started trying to make reeds I was obsessed by measurements as well but have since come to the conclusion that each reed is slightly different and you have to adjust accordingly.

I now make my own reeds and my current preference is something of a cross between an English and a French scrape - I scrape slightly longer with a slightly longer tip and a more pronounced heart.

One last thing, my teacher has a poor opinion of most of the French reeds that you can buy in shops. When I took some English reeds in to my lesson he was very favourably impressed and said that if it were possible to get reeds of that quality in France, he wouldn't feel he had to teach all his pupils how to make their own.
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