Author: huboboe
Date: 2010-11-06 04:28
I'm a long scrape player, but, looking at it from an engineering point of view, the long scrape reed has a short, thin tip with a much thicker back behind it, while the short scrape reed blends more gradually from thick to thin.
I think the point is to find the place on the reed where the embouchure can exert control of the high partials produced by the tip while not smothering the sound entirely.
On a long scrape reed, using too much reed frees up the tip entirely, while inhibiting the back, resulting in the blatty bagpipe sound.
I don't play short scrape reeds. Can anyone comment on my earlier post that using too much reed screws up the B/C interval in the staff? If this is true it might be a starting place. It certainly is on long scrape reeds...
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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