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Frame in minute 3:42. Who is that angel laughing?. Tess or Suz?.

Very helpful 8:12

Thanks for these tips to grow about.

I really needed this, my knife is pretty dull

Wow this is such a useful and informative video! Thanks a lot!

Just wanted you to know, I’ve had my reed making kit for nearly 30 years. I posted it free hoping to find a good and deserving candidate to appreciate it. I had the pleasure of meeting a wonderful young lady at 13, motivated to learn. I sent it with her tonight after briefly reviewing the tools and basic considerations. I reviewed many videos and truly appreciated your approach and explanations and referred her to your tutorials. Thank you for bringing light to the beautiful art of reed making and also such a detailed and fantastic explanation/demonstration. 💖🙏

At 1:00 is it 66 (as said) or 67 mm (as marked)?

Wow, thanks for explaining it in much detail.

Can I use violin rosin instead of beeswax?

To close the tip I found that if you close the end of the reed with your finger, spit in and suck on the reed, hold a bit, it will close. Worked for me, but hey I'm a cellist and playing oboe for fun.

Excellent videos. To how many mm do you gouge?

That’s amazing!!!

Hello. Great Video. I'm from Brazil.

THANK YOU! My oboe teacher in high school charged an insane amount on top of oboe lessons to teach reed making and kept rescheduling despite paying in advance so I never actually got to learn how to make my own reeds. I'm going to attempt to self teach while watching your videos. Wish me luck!

Instead of tying the thread to a C-Clamp, I was taught to stick the end of the thread into the staple, and than put the mandril in. This will fixate the thread and you can wrap the thread more easily. In the end after closing is with a noose or a knot, you can take the thread out of the staple and tie a knot from both ends on the thread.

english horn reeds easily detached from pipe. I wonder how reed not to detached from pipe. Could you give me some tips??

Apparently I need to get myself a better knife or something. I have a really hard time trying to shave any cane with it, and it just messes up the tip of my reeds. I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong or if it's my knife. But I ruin a lot of my reeds because of my knife. Anybody have any ideas?

A very good video🙂. I took notes and followed your steps and I actually produced a reed that played. Yay. I'm so happy. I'm not sure if it plays in tune but I suppose using these simple but informative videos I will figure it out.

It's a great video, but I do not hear the lower octave C in any of the crows. Even on headphones. ???

It’s thread not string

What’s the intro piece?

The unsealed reed with the plaque flying is hilarious. They should have added a pissed cat meow and a ton can garbage falling sound

thank you! very helpful for an oboist like me

i use the counting method on the scraping

What’s the intro piece?

It is interesting how "brutal"(very exadurated) she is able to scrape the reed. In my expericence, european or german style reeds are much harder to scrape, because they are more delicate(because you only scrape the first centemeter of the reed). If you do one mistake there, the reed is pretty much wasted, while american reeds can be still adjusted and saved, therefore more easy to scrape.

In terms of “crowing” to C#, is this done all the way on the thread? Lovely video!

It’s called “dusting” and it cleans off the dried dead skin and mineral deposits that build up on the reed and prevents it from vibrating.

I feel that the travel test is genius!! And something many people like myself never considered. It helped me a lot to get reeds that respond effortlessly in the low register. 😊

Thanks for all of the helpful tips on reed adjustments. Viewed video just when I didn't know for sure where to make the adjustments on the reed. Thanks again

Anyone how has any idea of where we can purchase the scraping tools?

Really excellent explanation. How long did you play before you decided to try making your own reeds?

How long should the cane soak for? Also thank you for making these videos! I’m just relearning how to wrap a blank to get better.

I didn't search for this, and neither did you

Trying to embrace and not fight it lol

#RIP to all the reeds I’ve ruined practicing lol.

Which cane do you use ?

This video helped me so much!!!! I actually fixed my reed!!

The CROW is an AWFUL sound to have to listen to unless you're completely psychologically prepared and know it's coming. It sounds a thousand times more grating than finger nails being scratched across a blackboard.

How come when I tie it it always crack

Nicely Done, ladies!

Omg this channel is perfect! Thank you so much, girls! You're amazing!

I cut my reed and it stopped working!

Where do you get the sharping stone with the the pink base from ?

What are the tools you need/are using to adjust these reeds?

love your guys' videos! please never stop uploading!

Your reed making videos are really excellent and detailed! I am self-taught and was able to make well playable reeds in no time!

What’s the grit on the stone and the rods?

I clicked on this randomly and immediately recognized the voice. Hi, Dr. Delaplain!

EXCELLENT presentation. I can also highly recommend the Chudnow staples that have the little screw on them as this takes care of the connection to the bocal without the need for tubing.