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Re: A reed playing too sharp?

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2010-11-27 11:52

Hello Mark,
Your points are very good and important to remember. But perhaps you missed where I wrote that my reeds are easy to play: several hours without getting tired. And I can assure you that I am nowhere near in shape like I used to be 15 years ago, so playing hours on end without getting tired is a big deal for me.

This is in line with the German model proposed by:
http://www.dirigent63.de/15.html
=> though his drawings are incomplete compared to backlit pictures and zooming in of Christoph Hartmann CD covers (somewhere else on the BBoard).

My purpose is not to put down American style - not at all. I just want no misconceptions about the need to bite on European reeds: this is completely false as European styled reeds can be made and adjusted to fit any set of sound requirements (including pitch/tuning, tone and dynamic expression) and any person's physiognomy.

My method (more important than final picture) is described at http://robin-hautbois.users.sourceforge.net/anches/index.html and my final reeds look mostly like pictres #11, #12 and more and more often (with the thinner cane) like #14, especially on oboe d'amore reeds. Most importantly, it is easy to make consistently good reeds with this method, whereas every I have mostly heard complaints of difficulty and discouragement from other methods.

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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