Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2010-10-02 16:35
Who revoiced your Buffet? Did they re-bore it?
Don't take this as having any scientific validity whatsoever, but I think smaller reeds are better on wide-bore instruments (this is true for my Lorée, in fact I am often surprised that my darkest/mellowest sounding reeds have narrow shapes) because, being bigger the air column is "more free" and thus requires more control to focus the pitch. The smaller bores would (if I'm on the right track) be inherently more stable but need a bigger reed to take the air your chest has to give.
This being said, "bigger reed" can mean wide or long or a combination of the two. The assumptions above do not hold when comparing oboe and English Horn, but then again, I might not be taking proportion (instrument vs. reed) into consideration.
This means that, from what you say, Dupins are remarkable: a small bore for pitch control yet still all the dynamic range one might want?
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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