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English Horn reed crow

Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2013-02-17 15:08

Hi everyone, what do you think is a proper pitch for an english horn reed's playing position crow? I personally think that the well accepted "C" for oboe is proven again and again to be true. How about english horn?

Regards,
Howard

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Re: English Horn reed crow

Author: WoodwindOz
Date: 2013-02-17 18:00

We have just had 'English Horn Month' in our studio, and it was reiterated many times in reed making class that the EH crow should be C#. I guess this is to do with the shorter length?

Rachel

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Re: English Horn reed crow

Author: Wes
Date: 2013-02-17 19:18

C is the preferred crow on my 1984 Loree cor, but one must do what works.

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Re: English Horn reed crow

Author: cjwright
Date: 2013-02-17 23:10

Depends on the voicing of the instrument and the length of your bocal. Martin tells us to shoot for a solid C and a C# after the wire, although that's for a long scrape A=440. I'm assuming you're playing higher.

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Re: English Horn reed crow

Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2013-02-18 12:01

So i assume this is concert C. I'll play around with concert C-C# and see what happens! Thank you all, godsend as usual!

Regards,
Howard

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