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 Re: 2011 IDRS Reflections
Author: jhoyla 
Date:   2011-06-07 08:31

Bobo, I thought about this; I can see no point in Leleux stretching the truth on this issue, so I have to take his statement at face value - and it is jaw-dropping in its ramifications.

I think he can do this for two reasons.

1. Without doubt, the French scrape is longer-lasting than the American scrape. The more bark you can leave on a reed the longer it will last. This has been my experience over the last 35 years.

2. He must be able to use reeds over a large range of hardness, from extremely hard to very soft. I expect that he uses the hardest cane he can find. As the reed changes he adjusts TO it (whereas my tendency is to adjust the reed itself). A sterling lesson to us all.

History is full of stories of great players who either bought reeds or "adopted" reeds from their students. They could focus their energies on interpretation and music instead. This is why the Armstrong Ward machine holds such great promise for us all.

In the same way that Microsoft made the world accept and use less-than-perfect software for its utility (and in the meantime they improved it vastly), we oboists may soon be able to concentrate on making music while unconsciously adapting our embouchure to average/good reeds.

As oboists, we hear (and sometimes obsess about) gradations of tone colour and quality that are simply inaudible to 99.9% of the population. Most listeners do not care much about "bright" or "dark" tone-colour - they are listening to the music and as long as it sounds like an oboe and not a buzz-saw, it is music.

J.
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