Author: jhoyla
Date: 2015-09-24 12:58
Yeah, I like the vids too. I find Pierre Roy's vids are particularly good. He is SO fast, ends up with reeds that look crappy but sound gorgeous ... you have to listen carefully to everything he says as he's chopping away at the reeds - everything is important. Getting the reed up to pitch, the crow, refining the rattle until it crows cleanly. Watch and listen. Note how often he sharpens his knife ..
Watch how he clips the tip, rotating the knife through. That little trick is worth learning!
For European scrape, the reed-making DVD by Linda Walsh is excellent. The scrapes are not that different in principle - European scrapes still have the same basic ingredients as the US long-scrape (tip, blend, heart, spine, back - the proportions and lengths are different, but the function and techniques remain the same).
J.
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