Thank you Ms Cassell for your technical prowess in adjusting the double reed, I found it both informative and enlightening. You have given me a very good platform with which to progress my playing and you have also enabled me to make further steps to playing at the high level to which I aspire too. What you have shared is to be greatly admired and applauded and I hereby take this opportunity to do so. Thank you so much for the knowledge and hence the power to make those changes, thank you👍🏾
The title tune is called Passing Go. It is from Meg's latest CD 'when faraway is here', a classical-pop fusion collaboration with her brother Stan on piano and friend Max on percussion. Listen to excerpts and see the review at www.cdbaby.com/cd/airrain
Does she have absolute pitch? Or is she just incredibly advanced and expirienced? Because I couldn't tell that the crow was diffrent nearly all throughout the last part of the video.
All of my new reeds are with a quacky sound. I don't know what i am doing wrong. But i'm not sure how much the middle column needs to be scraped, maybe i scrape too much
I am beginning to understand why my oboe/flute teacher calls the flute "a baby instrument." There is no comparison to the nuance the oboe requires, both in playing and working the reeds.
Same here! I have online assignments for band and I haven’t played my oboe in a while because I do guard for marching season, and I realized none of my reeds work and I have no idea what to do 😂 so I’m watching this video
Music Kid Hi kid. I’ve been playing since 1965. When the reed is dry the aperture should not be much over a millimeter. Depending on whether the cane is hard or soft after soaking for 4 to 5 minutes maximum, and you get an extremely wide opening you may have to with your forefinger and thumb squeeze the tip and the heart gently only after soaking to make the opening smaller and easier to make vibrate with your embouchure. A reed that already has a very wide opening should not be left in the water to soak. Soak the reed for four to five minutes in the water. Take it out of the water. Suck out all the water. Let it sit for 15 or 20 minutes. Soak it again for 15 seconds to 30 seconds maximum. It will be ready to play. If the opening of that rate is still very wide it will always be a difficult reed to work with. That’s enough for now.
It feels like this requires a lot of adjustments and easy to make mistakes and not get the desired results, totally non-linear, . Aren't there any reeds that don't need to be scraped?
JoselitoII - notEmanuel Hehehehe not cane reeds :-) There is the art of the Oboe playing. And there is the art of oboe reed making. The most neglected process of finishing a reed is knife sharpening technique. To have a very tiny sharp and smooth burr at the angle desired for the touchups and adjustments. When the knife is dull it has a tendency to crush the cane thus weakening the cane, then it dries out and then it expands again when wetted, then playing-completely different. But with an extremely sharp and smooth knife edge, the adjustments Become more consistent and permanent. We look for a comfortable feel of resistance within the reed. The sensation of stability with the least amount of embouchure adjustments. You can never safely do the final adjustments without an extremely sharp smooth knife edge.
Unless you want to deal with a synthetic reed, no. There's only one company that makes them and they're "decent" but would never be good enough for professional playing.
WoW that’s crazy, “very simple reed adjustment video.” Makes me thankful I was a brass player, and had a mouthpiece which always worked.
Thank you Ms Cassell for your technical prowess in adjusting the double reed, I found it both informative and enlightening. You have given me a very good platform with which to progress my playing and you have also enabled me to make further steps to playing at the high level to which I aspire too. What you have shared is to be greatly admired and applauded and I hereby take this opportunity to do so. Thank you so much for the knowledge and hence the power to make those changes, thank you👍🏾
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen 😧
The title tune is called Passing Go. It is from Meg's latest CD 'when faraway is here', a classical-pop fusion collaboration with her brother Stan on piano and friend Max on percussion. Listen to excerpts and see the review at www.cdbaby.com/cd/airrain
Does she have absolute pitch? Or is she just incredibly advanced and expirienced? Because I couldn't tell that the crow was diffrent nearly all throughout the last part of the video.
The pitch did not change that much. It was more the quality of sound and response that I heard from the video.
Thank you for posting this video. It really helped.
All of my new reeds are with a quacky sound. I don't know what i am doing wrong. But i'm not sure how much the middle column needs to be scraped, maybe i scrape too much
Paula Toni , that might be the problem. Avoid the middle column, especially the heart. Do not make the tip to long. Mines are appr. 1.5 mm
None of the reeds I have work... It makes learning the oboe harder than it actually is.
Same here!
I am beginning to understand why my oboe/flute teacher calls the flute "a baby instrument." There is no comparison to the nuance the oboe requires, both in playing and working the reeds.
Same here! I have online assignments for band and I haven’t played my oboe in a while because I do guard for marching season, and I realized none of my reeds work and I have no idea what to do 😂 so I’m watching this video
Thanks for the video!
I enjoyed watching this video.Thank you
What if the reed was too open? Would you have to attach a wire to the end of the reed?
Music Kid Hi kid. I’ve been playing since 1965. When the reed is dry the aperture should not be much over a millimeter. Depending on whether the cane is hard or soft after soaking for 4 to 5 minutes maximum, and you get an extremely wide opening you may have to with your forefinger and thumb squeeze the tip and the heart gently only after soaking to make the opening smaller and easier to make vibrate with your embouchure. A reed that already has a very wide opening should not be left in the water to soak. Soak the reed for four to five minutes in the water. Take it out of the water. Suck out all the water. Let it sit for 15 or 20 minutes. Soak it again for 15 seconds to 30 seconds maximum. It will be ready to play. If the opening of that rate is still very wide it will always be a difficult reed to work with.
That’s enough for now.
It feels like this requires a lot of adjustments and easy to make mistakes and not get the desired results, totally non-linear, .
Aren't there any reeds that don't need to be scraped?
Joselito Muller II - não sou o Emanuel No. This is why the oboe is considered one of the hardest instruments in the world to play.
JoselitoII - notEmanuel
Hehehehe not cane reeds :-)
There is the art of the Oboe playing. And there is the art of oboe reed making.
The most neglected process of finishing a reed is knife sharpening technique.
To have a very tiny sharp and smooth burr at the angle desired for the touchups and adjustments. When the knife is dull it has a tendency to crush the cane thus weakening the cane, then it dries out and then it expands again when wetted, then playing-completely different. But with an extremely sharp and smooth knife edge, the adjustments Become more consistent and permanent.
We look for a comfortable feel of resistance within the reed. The sensation of stability with the least amount of embouchure adjustments.
You can never safely do the final adjustments without an extremely sharp smooth knife edge.
Unless you want to deal with a synthetic reed, no. There's only one company that makes them and they're "decent" but would never be good enough for professional playing.
Just curious what make of oboe you're using. Thanks -
Yes I am curious as well....it appears as if the logo was howarth but it seem like there is too much writing in the circles
It appears to be Buffet Crampton after I zoomed in and got a good enought look
Great video!
now my reed is crowing 2 Cs! thank you so much!
Thanks for the video! What I'm most surprised about though is that .. St. Petersburg is in Florida! I thought it's in Russia :)