Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2015-03-17 15:36
Dear Scandivanian, your photos are absolutely spot on! What oboe do you play on? You are of course right when you say: "whatever works", since we probably play on different oboes, have different lips, different sound concepts, scrapes, gouging etc.
Here is a video of a performance i did in Singapore in 2011 when i played reeds which were completely identical to yours in terms of tying (with a Buffet, D12 45mm, RC12 shape/similar to yours i think). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDH0dYTDags
Same system of reeds on a Marigaux M2 in 2014. (same but chiarugi no. 2, 47mm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmJlIqEiTds
After 2013 i started to play more and more chamber and solo music, practice less and less (due to other career commitments), and as a result, found my system of reeds difficult to work on without lips of steel.
I searched far and wide and tried several different ideas over the course of 2 years. In the past few months i have adopted the method described in the previous reply. However, no recordings of that yet so in fact i don't know if it is better in the ears of the world! For myself there is improved staccato and sensitivity especially in the lower register and the 2nd octave is easier to reach in piano dynamics.
Of course i am not persuading anyone to adopt any other method, but it's nice to be able to share my experiences with someone who plays a similar system of reeds. Cheers!
Regards,
Howard
Post Edited (2015-03-17 15:39)
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