Trying to Make a "European" Style Oboe Reed (featuring Natalia Mielnik!)

Hello oboists and oboe fans! This week I am once again joined by extra special guest Natalia Mielnik! She is a fellow "oboe influencer" and super star from Poland. In this video she teaches me how to make a European style oboe reed! It was a lot of fun to learn from her.
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  • @AndersEkholm
    @AndersEkholm Жыл бұрын

    There are actually a lot of different european ways to make oboe reeds, not only one. They are really quite different from each other, but common to all of them are the much shorter scrape compared to the American. Even if the different regional schools of European ways of oboe playing have come closer to each other, they still are significant. Sound, vibrato, and the way a tone developes and connects to the next one in a phrase differs as well as the reeds

  • @AnishProductions
    @AnishProductions3 жыл бұрын

    Wow that was interesting the way they overlap one blade completely into the other. I had no idea tbh. It really is a completely different system and approach.

  • @oboeari

    @oboeari

    3 жыл бұрын

    Totally! It was illuminating. Thank you for watching Anish!!

  • @robjenhen
    @robjenhen2 жыл бұрын

    I am not an oboist, but one of my hobbies is making flutes and whistles out of bamboo, and had a thought to try and make a simple bamboo oboe. I enjoyed the 3 videos I watched. Most enlightening.

  • @archkde

    @archkde

    Жыл бұрын

    Double reed instruments made from bamboo/other cylindrical bore materials are quite different, and have a completely different evolutionary history compared to the oboe/shawm family (conical bore). The cylindrical bored instruments have much bigger reeds, a mellower, less piercing sound, and unfortunately have no descendant in the Western orchestra. Traditionally throughout Asia they were very popular, including the duduk (Armenia), guanzi (China), piri (Korea), and hichiriki (Japan), among many others. I highly recommend giving one of them a try!

  • @Anthony.Oboist.Pianist
    @Anthony.Oboist.Pianist3 жыл бұрын

    The scraping order and the reason for certain scrapes was very helpful. Great and entertaining video! Thank you both! 💙 Greetings from South Australia

  • @oboeari

    @oboeari

    3 жыл бұрын

    Glad that you enjoyed the video, Anthony!! Sending you good vibes from Toronto! 🇨🇦

  • @Xingqiwu387
    @Xingqiwu3873 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Informative and enjoyable. I've played on German-scrape reeds all my life. Even though they're a bit more difficult to play than American reeds, they're incomparably easier to make. How anyone could successfully scrape an American-style reed is a total mystery. Thank you both!

  • @oboeari

    @oboeari

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Definitely check out our previous videos where Natalia successfully makes an American style reed! I think in terms of ease of reed-making, they could be more similar than you think!

  • @lunahed755
    @lunahed7552 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing 💕

  • @kurtilk
    @kurtilk3 жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️

  • @dionsteaparty8528
    @dionsteaparty85283 жыл бұрын

    Early squad!

  • @oboeari

    @oboeari

    3 жыл бұрын

    I see you and appreciate you!

  • @NataliaMielnik
    @NataliaMielnik3 жыл бұрын

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • @oboeari

    @oboeari

    3 жыл бұрын

    😍😍😍😍

  • @nataliaurbanelli358

    @nataliaurbanelli358

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey Natalia! Interesting video :) I have one question, how long do you keep the cane in water before starting to prepare it for binding? Thanks!

  • @NataliaMielnik

    @NataliaMielnik

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@nataliaurbanelli358hey! Warm water and wait till they will fall down ☺️

  • @ultimawerewolfbluephoenix9670
    @ultimawerewolfbluephoenix9670 Жыл бұрын

    "is it hard for you?" "Very hard' "Good" I think my humor is broken cause this has me cackling 💀

  • @jaasielrodriguez7493
    @jaasielrodriguez74933 жыл бұрын

    Omg i wanna be as good as you are :D

  • @oboeari

    @oboeari

    3 жыл бұрын

    Practice, practice, practice 🥰

  • @benniecottone3413
    @benniecottone34133 жыл бұрын

    Which side of the reed do you play on (upper/lower lip), if one blade is wrapped inside the other?

  • @NataliaMielnik

    @NataliaMielnik

    3 жыл бұрын

    Rounded on the upper lip, normal on the lower ❤️

  • @benniecottone3413

    @benniecottone3413

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@NataliaMielnik Both blades are round. One blade is slipped inside the other. Is that blade up or down?

  • @oboeari

    @oboeari

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Bennie - the blade that's slipped inside is more rounded and is the one that should be on your upper lip. Hope this helps!

  • @AndreyRubtsovRU
    @AndreyRubtsovRU Жыл бұрын

    In civilized word we call it "trying a reed"