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Author: Wes
Date: 2012-12-21 22:05
Hi! I just played that Mozart piece on Wednesday and it is the work of a genius. There is no second player so we don't have to play the low Cs but the whole piece requires a reed that will play very softly and in tune. It makes me feel good to play the oboe part on that piece.
The top 2 mm of the tip can be scraped thin with the sharpest knife to get the low Cs out. The sides of the tip can also be thinned and the corners of the hump can be thinned, all without lowering the overall pitch of the reed. A teacher of mine, the late Salvatore Spano, also said to thin the outer edges of the hump very thin and to thin the area where the windows can lead into the outer edges of the hump, again without lowering the reed pitch.
Usually, I don't find this selective thinning of the reed to be really successful on a quite new reed. For me, the reed has to have been worked over for many days before it becomes a soft/loud and yet in tune reed.
Congratulations on playing a fine piece. Good luck!
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JRC |
2012-12-21 18:47 |
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JRC |
2012-12-21 18:50 |
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Oboehotty |
2012-12-22 15:45 |
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Chris P |
2012-12-21 19:35 |
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mjfoboe |
2012-12-21 21:28 |
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Re: Reed for good low C at pp new |
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Wes |
2012-12-21 22:05 |
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JRC |
2012-12-22 11:47 |
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Chris P |
2012-12-22 16:02 |
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JRC |
2012-12-22 22:00 |
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ohsuzan |
2012-12-23 02:05 |
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jhoyla |
2012-12-23 09:54 |
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