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  @Alan-dp4odАй бұрын

  I like these reed videos but

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  @tomenns7978Ай бұрын

  Very informative and helpful, as are all your videos. Thanks for doing these!

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  @simsim292 ай бұрын

  Hey Pierre, where do you usually start the heart at? 61?

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  @PierreRoyOboe2 ай бұрын

  Great question. Usually 61 for a 5mm length is good. However, when I start the catch its about a third of the reed from the back. Different cane will demand different lengths of the heart depending on how the cane resonates and where the center of the reed feels. If the reed is tight, or stuck, I will move the back of the heart forward. You will see this in pictures of other players reeds where there will be scrapes in the back of the heart which look like blending. This starts to get into the balance of the back and the tip. Slightly different for different styles.

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  @JamesNagano2 ай бұрын

  Can I buy one of your shaper tips?

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  @PierreRoyOboe2 ай бұрын

  Hi James, the best way is to go to my site Pierreroyoboe.com and use paypal. Make sure the correct address is in the purchase. Thanks.

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  @LOM6012 ай бұрын

  Thank you for your continued posts imparting such good help!

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  @juandavidtorresmonge79863 ай бұрын

  Thank you Pier!!!! Your tips are terrific!!! and help me to improve my reed making!!!

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  @JaggedJack13 ай бұрын

  What do you do with the cane after you run it through that planer? The results of that don't look like any oboe or english horn reeds I have ever seen.

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  @rgombine4 ай бұрын

  I hope you are monitoring comments for this video. I have found this concept of “rattle” super useful. The only problem I sometimes have is that sometimes I need to push the top of the heart back (resulting in base of heart starting as low as 64) in order to make this happen. 73mm blank . Any suggestions?

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  @PierreRoyOboe3 ай бұрын

  Hey Ross, perhaps the gouge is heavy and scraping the channels more may help

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  @rgombine3 ай бұрын

  Thanks I’ll try being a little more aggressive there

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  @rgombine3 ай бұрын

  Also any thoughts on how steep the V at the top of the heart should be?

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  @Rich40984 ай бұрын

  I've been having a tendency to discover that I've wrapped a bit past the tube. Maybe the width of one wrap. I swear it seems to move on me over time. How does that affect the reed?

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  @PierreRoyOboe4 ай бұрын

  Hi, the reed will creep around the tube unless you wrap against the side slip.

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  @Chosenbap25 ай бұрын

  like asmr occasionally interspersed with the sound of an un-oiled door

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  @6adget5 ай бұрын

  I just found your channel. I wish you had the time to put out more videos. you are the Bob Ross of your profession. I'm sure I'm not the first one to say that.

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  @prod.domino5 ай бұрын

  wow thats so cool! im not throwing away my weak cane anymore! it can make a good backup reed

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  @johnholenski43655 ай бұрын

  Thanks. I’ll give this technique a try.

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  @artemi-music5 ай бұрын

  Thanks for your video 🙏

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  @markn35866 ай бұрын

  Thanks for your thoughts on this topic. I was wondering what makes the EV shaper tip well suited for a wide variety of reeds? I think the side profile of the reed you made is like the gold standard of what an American Long Scrape reed should look like. I think most reed makers struggle with making that subtle transition from the heart into the tip and probably tend more towards a cliff edge profile instead of a subtle slope as you demonstrated.

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  @colineastwood13576 ай бұрын

  Thank you, that was helpful.

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  @markn35867 ай бұрын

  Have you ever noticed and shared knowledge on how the shapes affect the qualities of the reed? Or how a player should choose a gouger that best suites them? I'm thinking of experimenting beyond my current Caleb shaper tip. Yes, the Ross gougers are wonderful. I have two since i also play english horn.

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  @GrotrianSeiler8 ай бұрын

  So much insight. Terrific!

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  @oboerific9 ай бұрын

  This is life changing info you are putting out there!

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  @aidastango9 ай бұрын

  Full shit... 😂😂😂

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  @Neuro_Spicy88710 ай бұрын

  Hi Pierre, I am having trouble with my low C key not producing a sound. Could you please offer assistance? Thank you!

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  @PierreRoyOboe10 ай бұрын

  Hi, if the low D is playing there might not be enough spring holding the C# down. Sometimes you can wrap a rubber band around the instrument and across the C# tone hole key to hold it down tightly. If the D doesn’t come out well it’s probably the F resonance key. Needs tightening.

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  @PierreRoyOboe10 ай бұрын

  Hey again, I was trying to solve your issue without looking at the instrument. There is an adjustment screw for the Low C-C# key and it might be too tight. Try loosening it and that will enable the C key to fully close. Sorry for the previous answer that may or may have not worked. Best

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  @PierreRoyOboe10 ай бұрын

  C-D# I mean. Again without looking. I have a pic if you need.

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  @Neuro_Spicy88710 ай бұрын

  @@PierreRoyOboe Please share a pic

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  @ryanghassemi361310 ай бұрын

  Cool.

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  @rmtorig Жыл бұрын

  My teacher was Earnest Harrison and he was a master Reed maker. David Weber was a close friend and I worked with him he was as good as you can get in understanding the double radius gouge and setting up gougers.

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  @cooperjwright Жыл бұрын

  Hi Pierre, Cooper here... I think a lot of things you got right about the differences, but I did notice a few things that you might have missed. Having said that, I never had the opportunity to study with de Lancie himself but I saw a handful of his reeds from David who explained every detail of them. I did sit at the desk of David Weber for 3 years when I lived in Chandler. My wife was the office assistant there (would pack up orders, answer phones etc) and I would go pick her up every day, usually stopping by and talking with David for 15 mins... which would extend for an hour until it was dinner time. Some days I spent 12-15 hours in his shop watching him repad an instrument, pin a crack, or heaven forbid, fix a gouging machine which he hated... I'll never forget asking him if I could buy a graf blade for him and he put me in the car, drove me to the hardware store where we bought steel strips, sand paper, drill bits, a blow torch, and motor oil (for oil quenching). Some 20 hours later I had 15 new graf blades and blisters all over all 10 fingers. The biggest thing you talk about is the taper, and while this is true about the tip (tapering all the way to the end), it is also true for the heart, as well as the windows. David said the Philadelphia style had to taper to the middle of the heart, and then back down to the thinnest place in the windows and back up. No hard ledges or lines, just one constant hourglass shape. Based upon your video, it seems like the thinnest place on your reed is about the middle of the window. David always taught the thinnest place was just behind the heart, otherwise the top 1/3rd of the window and taper back up to the bark. Another thing was that the tip and the heart always tapered from side to side. The scrape of the side of the heart was thinner than the middle, and so it almost had a complete dome shape (not visably domed, but if you measured it with a micrometer the side next to the rail was much thinner than the middle and channels). This concept of the heart was much different from Mack who actually referred to the heart often as the "plateau" implying that it was basically parallel from a side view from the back of the heart to the front. The effect of this is obviously adding more resistance to the reed to blow against (something you talk about when you mention his strong airstream). The windows were always somewhat parallel in the lowest places. With the tip being parallel, heart being parallel and windows being parallel, this created a purportionally thicker and more stable heart to blow against, which you describe. The final big thing that isn't mentioned is the overlap. de Lancie and Mack both used the overlap but in different ways. de Lancie would scrape both the left and right sides of the reed differently, so that the left side rail and window would kind of collapse into the overlap, thus creating tighter sides and a more focused sound. This is why the double radius was so important obviously because it was strong enough to hold up. There's more I could mention, but everything you say makes sense to me. More pieces to the puzzle to see the overall picture.

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  @PierreRoyOboe2 ай бұрын

  Cooper, thanks so much for your comments. Very interesting and insightful! Please forgive my delayed response.

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  @rgombine Жыл бұрын

  How far back is it when you start? 66mm

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  @ellensherman Жыл бұрын

  Would also like to know who you’re referring to. Thx

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  @adriangonzalez48775 ай бұрын

  I believe it’s David Weber

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  @rgombine Жыл бұрын

  Required viewing!!

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  @PierreRoyOboe Жыл бұрын

  4:51 it doesn’t have to be a lot

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  @EllissDee4you4me Жыл бұрын

  Love that Landwell knife. Having a great knife is so important. When I got my first Landwell I noticed an immediate improvement in my reedmaking due to the amount of control you have when scraping.

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  @EllissDee4you4me Жыл бұрын

  Regarding symmetry, Something I’ve found helpful is standardize my scrapes so I’m more or less doing the same thing with every scrape. When you get to that point, I like to count aloud my scrapes, that way if I decide to 20 on one side of the blade, I’ll do twenty three more times. Counting scrapers is tedious but it really helps to maintain the symmetry between the two blades.

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  @EllissDee4you4me Жыл бұрын

  Really cool video. I think it’s really cool how every oboist makes their reeds slightly different but their tendencies can for the most part can be traced back to who taught you and who taught your teacher. One of my favorite oboe books is the Reed styles book that shows different reeds made by famous oboist from around the world. Someone should publish an update to this, showing how reddmaking had progressed.

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  @EllissDee4you4me Жыл бұрын

  I’ve played lots of oboes over the years but never had the opportunity to play a Laubin. I tell students looking to buy an instrument to play as many oboe as you can and ignore the brand, since all brands have duds and diamonds. When I bought my oboe ten years ago, I was at first shocked that out of the ten oboes I tried one of the lorees was an absolute gem. I totally expected to get something other than a loree, but it truly was an exceptional instrument and it’s still the best oboe I’ve ever played. I imagine a boutique company like laubin produces far more diamonds than duds, but every company makes the occasional perfect oboe, you just have to look for it. The way you describe your reedmaking sounds similar to what I’ve concluded after years of experimenting. Reeds need to vibrate fully from tip all the way through. A lot of students I see somehow learned that harder reeds are easier to intonate and have a more consistent tone so they play harder and harder reeds. This is true, but you have little control over your color or dynamics and you have to work so hard to make the Reed speak. I like softer reeds and am always trying to convert students to give up the popsicle reeds.

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  @cmw12 Жыл бұрын

  These videos are really answering several questions I had about beginning and finishing the tip. When I first began reedmaking, I would succeed in producing that “rough scrape” without knowing what I was doing. In fact, I thought I was making a mistake because of the lack of definition. Somehow my teacher and I were always able to make decent reeds from those initial attempts. Later, I tried to be more careful and put that definition in at the start. I ended up with tips that were thick in the center, with aggressively thinning sides. The reeds felt huge in the mouth, and I couldn’t understand where I was going wrong. Now I know I wasn’t prioritizing “slope before sides”.

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  @cmw12 Жыл бұрын

  This is just black magic. I scrape, and scrape, and scrape, and produce utter crap. I probably need to sharpen my knife better.

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  @forpspeakingclass4444 Жыл бұрын

  thanks for the video! very interesting

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  The tone became lighter, and seemed free'er after your dusting polishing. It locks in light stability too.

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  .. I was just working on finishing some old reeds, and here you are again! Terrific!

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  @threedogsandacamper503 Жыл бұрын

  Thank you for making this video and sharing your insights! It was nice to hear you mention David Weber. I got my first gouging machine from him when I was 18 (I’m 57 now). I also made reeds for their (he and Vendla) business for many years until they retired. I’ll be sure to share this with my colleagues, I’m sure they’ll find it fascinating.

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  I hope you can meet Greg Undo at the NAMM show! Yamaha/Steinberg.

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  Dorico Elements is free and you can use 2 vst instrument tracks.

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  I used Score to copy the Britten Fantasy for strings and oboe. Using VI Solo Strings ... WOW!

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  Using Halion, within Cubase, you can create your own samples of your own oboe articulations. Greg Undo will help anyone with Score questions since it is part of Cubase of which Greg is the Yoda for Steinberg software such as Cubase or Nuendo, Wavelab etc. You Pierre are our Yoda for Oboe reeds and more, as you are doing here! See us on KZread every Tuesday and Friday 10 am Western time for 4 hours for Cubase users all over the world! Please say hi to Greg and they'll know who I am :-)

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  And it was Steinberg that designed and implemented the VSTi (virtual studio technology instrument) for loading and using samples. I also use the Vienna Solo Strings samples and there are literally hundreds of articulations. But Cubase is already loaded with everything you need!

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  And Dorico is the newest music writing/scoring from Steinberg software that's upstaging Finale.

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  Ah ha! Congrats! Cubase 12 Pro and Score is awesome!!! I've used Cubase and Score since Cubase SX!

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  @edwinsargithmontenegro5623 Жыл бұрын

  gracias PierreRoyOboe :)

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  Height of b key critical for high C# too. My AK Loree is almost closed, maybe a 1/2 mm perfect for me. Poulenc uses high passages with the high C# and D# in the Trio.. and in the Sonata too, in octave drops... tempting us to use the trill fingering for high C#, quickly dropping to the octave below. Fun stuff.

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  @nomorebushz Жыл бұрын

  Pretty wood

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  @joelbussey8305 Жыл бұрын

  This EXACTLY. Most oboists don't want to get into the technical aspects of reed making. Once I learned how the double radius gouge can improve American style reed making with proper adjustments, I started to have better and better results with my reeds. The measurements Pierre talks about are so key to American reed making. You need a strong spine at .60 or so, then let the gouge quickly taper for better vibration. I think the Ferrillo guide I use for my gouger is .54 or .53 in the same area Pierre describes. Then the sides can be thicker at .47 or so and adjusted slightly to preference. Taking measurements of your gouged cane (and making sure they're proper) before shaping will save you a TREMENDOUS amount of time and effort. I just couldn't make good American reeds until I understood this. I would use a single radius gouge and end up with something I had to scrape like crazy and the sides would be too thin. It was REALLY difficult to get a good spine as well. A proper gouge can save you so much time and headache. Also loved your video on Laubin reeds - I definitely find that the blend must have a more gradual taper. I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you!

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  @michaeltijerina3019 Жыл бұрын

  Interesting theory. My grand teachers would have been both Mack and De Lancie students. I was taught to make reeds like the Mack reeds (and I still do transition to end), but mine are blended like the De Lancie reeds. I can pick up any instrument and play it; my colleagues with the same teachers can only play Lorees. I am not sure its quite isolated in the tip though. I belive the staple has more to do with what instrument works for you as it is an extension of the bore however I do think that the blended reeds are more vibrant and less stable, which lend themselves well to instruments with less undercutting that more more stable inherently (not Loree). This translates to vibrancy inside really good intonation. The Loree instrument is vibrant and requires a stable reed. I believe a Mack reed on a Yamaha, Fox, Rigioutat, Laubin, etc would feel stuffy.