Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-04-07 00:33
I'd suggest getting a proper mandrel at least for tieing. For scraping, I do just use an oboe staple with some top cork removed inserted into the ehorn staple.
My last teacher was ehorn player with the National Symphony and taught me several very useful ehorn reed things...
The most significant for me was getting the pitch of the crow up to the point where the 2nd octave f# and g do not sag.
Depending on which bocal I use, that would be crowing a c# or d. Once I starting doing that, great things happened.
I try the c# crow first, using both bocals, but move up to d if the f# or g sag at all... (Loree ehorn and bocal #1 and #2 in my case)
Also, I agree with the Weber manual and video suggestion... very good stuff in there, but too few ehorn reed photos, unfortunately.
I have had two oboe gougers, many ounds of cane, many torments with oboe, but for ehorn using pre-shaped cane has always been easy and I remain happy with that.
Ehorn is serious fun!
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