Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2012-10-03 23:24
I'd suggest you get the David Weber ReedManual. The dimensions show a range of recommended shortest to longest, thinnest to widest, etc.
My teacher was solo ehorn in the Nat'l Symphony for a lot of years and both he and Weber's advice suggest using wire to control the tip opening is really a bad choice.
It is there to promote resonance and stability on certain notes which can be a really tough concept.
Personally I find the longer reeds cause more induced problems in intonation, color changes between neighboring notes, 3rd octave false starts, etc.
Depending on how much bark is left above the staple, I can actually see a reed of 53 mm to 56 working fine.
But I am not exaggerating on the reed length working at 52. No shorter. It is some sort of boundary.
And finding a reed that works w/o biting is really important. In my experience longer than 54 tends to require a little too much from the chops.
Very little embouchure change should be needed from octave to octave.
Let it vibrate and let the room do its part in the tone production and development. (Listening to recorded samples at various distances is a great teacher about that point.)
And.... ehorn is great fun to play. Really, more so than oboe. It can really wail.
Post Edited (2012-10-03 23:26)
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