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Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2013-08-07 02:06

In time the subtleties of differing reeds for differing circumstances may become useful, or maybe not so useful. A good middle of the road reed meaning good balance, good intonation and support of variable articulation and expression you will find is the pro reed. Too hard a reed is a waste of time and worse.

Hard cane Vs. softer cane is a different issue. Both can be made to play well with slightly different reed scraping techniques, and in the end a decent reed is pretty close to any other decent reed.

Do avoid the overly 'hard' reeds... meaning too much breath pressure is required ( you tire out in a couple minutes) and by all means avoid reeds that encourage or require you to bite them into submission with downward lip/teeth pressure. That is a killer...

Like with good food and wine there is a range of decent and acceptable reeds and now and then one gets lucky and magic seems to happen. Don't depend on that though, just love the heck out of it if and when it happens.

Then good things happen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoxNYQL7kg0&list=UUNoNLvLI314ql1uXphxFlww

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eDk6-CFUgQ

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=586949271328207&set=vb.100000394188425&type=2&theater

These are previous posts I did with some great friends, but the point is, all on easy to play reeds...

Dark, light, etc. A decent reed with proper wind and minimal embouchure will help you do some good things with the music. There is no right sound, only many right sounds and even more poor ones. It is part of the fun.

This one shows a similar approach to english horn:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cgwtb5as-g Too heavy there is also a killer.

Have fun!

Post Edited (2013-08-07 17:15)

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