Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-01-17 13:46
How long have you been soaking your cane? It needs to be soaked until it sinks, and is very waterlogged. Sometimes, if I'm short on time, I'll even leave the cane in the water for a day or two.
Don't give up yet!!! Sometimes it takes a while to really get home reeds going.
-If you aren't sure if oboe is your thing yet, maybe make one reed a week. Consider it an ongoing project, but don't expect to use the reeds for your actual playing.
-If you do want to pursue oboe (maybe not professionally, but even to take it in university) make one reed a day. And then, once you get a playable reed, stop relying on store bought reeds. Go so far, even, as to ceremoniously break all old reeds once you make your first usable reed. It's something to be proud of!
Take a look at this webpage:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~schuring/main.html
Go to "Notes for beginning reedmakers"
It should provide some useful insight...
D
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