 The Oboe BBoard
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Author: MarcAZ67
Date: 2012-03-23 03:51
an EH shape would still be too narrow really, though I understand they would use them when all this early music stuff started in the 60's. I'm certainly not an expert on all this, but I know the bores are much different...its like blowing down a big open recorder. So the reed needs a wider shape and more spread to be able to really "flex" your air and even flex your pitch ( G# and Ab reallycan be a different pitch), G#Ab and F# are hitting a single hole in a space with two holes ( tricky and can show your reed flaws because this wholendesign seems rather unstable bore-wise)and then there are forked fingerings like F and Bb that needs the reed to be able to flex to make those sound nice. So far in my reed exploration, I have a very narrow and low spine, not really windows, thin sides and some mysterious "blob area" in the heart area that allows the reed to TRY to pop the octaves ( and sometimes choking my throat slightly)..still .very mysterious foe me! No radical sections - more like a bassoon reed I think? For now, I do a long scrape, but shorter in relation to my mod long scrape reeds.
Mine is a 2 keyed Joel Robinson/ Steve Hammer boxwood A 415 Saxon oboe made in the 1980's representing the 1720's ( that sounds funny!) Per Steve Hammers recommendation I now use 50mm Chiarugi staples designed by Steve for this instrument. Steven Bard in PA sells shaped b oboe cane of three diffeent shapes and Steve Hammer just came out with shaper tips made by Westwind which sound intriguing. some people hand shape - OMG!
Though I am trying to get my mod oboe playing in shape, I've always thought the sound of a baroque oboe was beautiful ( well, unless is sounds like a sick cat which is easy to do!) and pure.
There is a hautboy research group board on Yahoo and hautboy.org are interesting sites for those interested
It seems a more primitive beast, yet I think the freedom and free flow of blowing it is kind of liberating...though I have "octave key envy" when I try to play.
I still need to get the book I mentioned for this post. besides Galpin, I do believe there have been articles in IDRS journal over the years on b oboe reeds as well
marc
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MarcAZ67 |
2012-02-28 19:31 |
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WoodwindOz |
2012-03-01 03:42 |
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RobinDesHautbois |
2012-03-21 10:51 |
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Re: Baroque/Hautboy Reed Manual new |
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MarcAZ67 |
2012-03-23 03:51 |
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