#reedmaking

[ohsis]

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[chiaki-kobayashi]

oboe reed's material tubecanes

how to choice⁉️

[bartoncane]

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[sigmastolen]

i don't think i've made a reed i liked in like. three years. so i keep trying to play everything on the one same reed i did actually like, and even though it's kind of worked so far bc i am just not playing that much, it's obviously uh, not sustainable, since reeds are made of organic material that breaks down as you use it, right, so it's certainly past its peak and sometime soon will inevitably fail completely and i truly don't know what i will do when that happens :)

[supercantaloupe]

it is frankly hilarious to me how strongly diverging the opinions are that oboists will have on reedmaking. even when they themselves had the same damn teacher

[gaybox]

made 2 really good reeds today ms. blue and pink and ms. red. i think bluenpink is recital meterial but im still keeping ms red in the running because its also a really good reed. yellow is decent aswell it needs like one more working on it but i think it has potential to at least be a good rehearsal reed. and then the pink/purple and the blue i just tied off today they might be for opera later this month if they turn out nice

[khytal]

I always wondered how reed making worked, but I never knew anyone who did it! how did you learn to do it and get better? how long have you done it?

my first teacher wanted me to start early on reedmaking so I’ve known how to handle a reed knife for about as long as I’ve been playing (about 7 years)

I’ve only had 2 teachers but they were both adamant that I make my own reeds, because it’s cheaper than buying them pre-made. there was almost equal emphasis on my reedmaking skills as there was on playing technique x)

it’s a LOT of trial and error I’ve probably only made about 60??? reeds altogether, which isn’t a lot at all, but half of them didn’t work or I accidentally ruined them lmao. my second teacher really helped me improve and I can make reeds pretty reliably now (though they range from having an ok sound to concert quality hdjchdjdh)

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[serialcomposer]

I'm really glad you asked that @butchfeygela :D

Here's the short answer:

From what we can make out from reconstructed instruments of the past there was never a point where the chanter's low A was ever 440hz (the standard for most orchestras today) and it seems to have always been hovering around sounding more like a Bb (that's around 466hz today but with the trend for a flatter standard back then that sounds right that it would come out at around 459hz).

There are two main factors which have contributed to the shift upwards in pitch; one active and one passive. The passive factor is that the highland pipe is for all intents and purposes a solo instrument that needs to only play with itself (or with other pipers in a band situation). Since there are relatively few contexts where a highland pipe would be played with other instruments there is no need for it to adopt or remain within the standard pitch and was, historically, more a personal choice of the piper (influenced by local tradition of course) what pitch they were played at.

The second factor has to do with pipe bands and pipe band competitions. A number of top competing bands started gradually pushing their pitch up; this started with drummers trying to get more volume out their instruments which required tuning them sharper which caused pipers to tune sharper to match. In an outdoor competition setting it was seen as beneficial to have a sharp band to stand out and cut through the other bands who would be competing at the same time in a different part of the outdoors so the judges wouldn't be distracted quite so much. This whole thing sort of started an arms race with competing bands pushing themselves further and further sharp and town and amateur bands copying them as a sort of "keeping up with latest trends" type of thing.

This is actually beginning to cause a problem because it's making the sound of the chanter a bit thinner than it used to be so while it's still a loud and powerful sound, the lower overtones aren't as strong and there's a less "broad" sound to it than there used to be. With a good reed you can get a much broader sound these days to get that old feeling back but most (competing) bands aren't really going for that and since a lot of the solo pipers you have these days are also band players they tend to just keep going with it.

As for how this affects how old music is played? In mechanical/practical terms not at all. You finger all the notes the same way and the tune comes out roughly similar to how it would have when it was written just sharper. It may sound as if it's in a different key but since the highland pipe is a solo instrument it's a rather moot point. The exception to this is with pìobaireachd but that's much more to do with performance practice than the actual instrument itself why that's not the same as it used to be.

The other impact this shift upwards in pitch has had is that as sharper pitches become the norm that's what chanters get made to play at (for example; my everyday McCallum MrkII chanter is designed to be pitched arond 470hz) and that's the sort of chanters reedmakers are making reeds to suit; meaning it's really hard to play a chanter made in the 50s using a modern reed because they just don't work together all that well. Short of making your own reeds you'd be hard put to try and get it going at all (trust me; I've tried plenty times at work when someone brings in an old pipe to be refurbished; the chanter just will not coöperate with modern reeds and we usually recomment getting a new one).

Or was it a slightly different question you were thinking about?

This is from a bagpipe maintenance book from 1964

These days low a is in the high 470s at the lowest; often in the mid 480s and with some bands passing 490.

[ohsis]

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[bartoncane]

Factory seconds are half of today!!! #bassoon #oboe #bassoonist #oboist #bassooncane #oboecane #reeds #reedmaking https://www.instagram.com/p/CmNDNEbA2_g/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sigmastolen]

every time i'm prepping for an outdoor gig i try using the legere reeds, and every time i decide to just suck it up and deal with whatever my normal reeds throw at me, because the legere just don't have the response or the strength i need. even on the harder one, the open E sinks and the high range is strained and they just lack a sweetness you get from real arundo donax. and it's a damn shame that i can't use them for their main purpose, especially since they were so goddamn expensive

[supercantaloupe]

genuinely wonder how much of my oboeposting comes off like i’m speaking in fucking code to normal people (nonoboists)

[thereedblog]

Reed making session: the wrapping🤓

Please, remember good things take time

[janusnyx]

Reed time! #oboereedmaker #oboework #oboereedmaking #oboelyfe #reeds #reed #reedmaking #reedlyfe #coffee #coffeetime https://www.instagram.com/p/CKMlVibgKiV/?igshid=1ovfmdvmdpryb

[khytal]

I miss reedmaking but I don’t play enough to justify using up my leftover cane :(