Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2012-07-12 01:50
I was just about to say that your pictures are amazing!
Lighting is very hard, and I have found, over the years, that backlighting is good for a quick intuitive impression, but there is no real precision to be gained with it.... it is a tool, not a metric.
I guess you used a really decent camera with good strong daylight: lighting is the most difficult thing of all in technical photography. Your pictures show very, very clearly how the grains are being cut and how the layering is happening. I find this more revealing than backlighting, the latter having left me surprized many times. But this kind of picture is really hard to get every time. In case you might be interested, here are some similar pictures of my reeds.... always experimental!
http://robindeshautbois.blogspot.ch/2011/09/rare-wired-reeds.html
(click on the picture to get a full-sized image)
For example, of how good this kind of picture is, I can see that you do not "plane" the cane, but rather sweep with the knife: this way, your windows do not result in a "catch" behind the hump (to use Jay Light's terminology), but rather your windows sink like water in a sand trap.
I won't comment on your scraping style because:
1. After having spent years making them in a smilar way, then learning other styles, I decided long-windows scrape just isn't suited to me.
2. Experience on the BBoard and meeting others showed me unequivocally that any given scraping style is suited to some and not others and this means there is a place for all of them.
=> conclusion: you say they play in tune, add full dynamic range and articulation ability and you're batting a thousand!
I actually do, sometimes, scrape off all the bark, all the way to the thread: only difference: it is essentially still short-scrape, but with the cane thinned on the outside when the reed is just too hard.
Keep it up and keep us abreast of your progress!
Good stuff!
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
Post Edited (2012-07-12 01:55)
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