Author: huboboe
Date: 2015-03-20 03:27
@jhoyla - Just for the record, please take any pronouncements I make with a grain of salt. I have met esteemed oboists for whom the way they have figured it out becomes the 'right' way, and who will entertain no other possibility. I speak to what works for me and has worked for my students, but there's more than one way to skin a cat, as they say.
Within each school of reed making (I'm Philadelphia style) everybody makes 'the same reed', except, of course, we all make the 'same reed' differently, sometimes quite differently.
I agree with you that a tight seal is the most important factor in successful reed making. Second in importance, in my opinion, is the slope or taper of the blend, since that is what couples the tip to the back and brings the energy of the vibrating tip to drive the back; the back is too thick to vibrate by itself...
Add to that all the decisions you mention about sound concept, instrument, embouchure, physiology and there is a huge number of valid possible solutions.
If you can build a reed that satisfies you in sound and response, you've solved the problem no matter what anybody else does. Or says...
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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