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Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-01-01 03:11
A good friend here in Colorado ( and very good oboe player as well) does something to her reed that strikes me as strange but seems to work well for her.
On a fairly new reed (does not work on old ones) she takes a nail file of fairly fine grain (sand paper style, not diamond dust or similar) and rakes it across the very tip of the reed on both sides.
She calls this finishing the reed. It seems similar to scraping a very thin tip section or using very fine silicone paper to thin the extreme tip... but... she really rakes it across the reed. ( It actually scared me when I saw her do it at a recording session...)
It makes a tip that looks like as she calls it 'Bart Simpson's head'. It is a much rougher approach to tip work than I've ever considered. The jagged edge she calls a 'holes' technique and I believe she attributes it to Philly thinking in reeds of late.
Have any of you experienced this sort of reed treatment and how does it work for you?
Post Edited (2007-01-01 03:15)
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Craig Matovich |
2007-01-01 03:11 |
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d-oboe |
2007-01-01 04:12 |
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cjwright |
2007-01-01 05:16 |
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Craig Matovich |
2007-01-01 19:23 |
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cjwright |
2007-01-02 03:02 |
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aboboe |
2007-01-06 05:54 |
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cjwright |
2007-01-06 11:29 |
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