Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-04-26 02:28
I find it disconcerting, in the midst of one of my Hal Leonard playalongs, to hear myself sounding, in notes in the upper register, variously, occasionally, like a clarinet, or a flute. It doesn't do it all the time, just on certain notes, in certain passages, every so often. Is it normal? Is it desireable? Does this happen to other people? It IS a woodwind, after all, but it doesn't sound distinctively "oboe". When I listen to an oboist on a recording, I don't recall hearing notes that sounded like a clarinet or a flute--it's always, unmistakeably, an oboe.
I've got a Fox Artist reed, a Meg Cassell, a Reedery, and a Singing Dog reed, and they're very nice, and actually not flat and I don't have to wrestle them up to pitch, which is a nice change, but I miss the piercing bite that is what I think of as "oboe" sound. Maybe it's just that I'm used to the nasal honk of my factory reeds?
And they're really quiet, too. If this is the norm, then how do you fill an entire concert hall with one of these clarinet/flute mezzo-forte reeds?
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