#reedmaking

[sigmastolen]

i really do have so much affection for my reedmaking students

especially when they send me videos that were shot in portrait but play back in landscape

[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

[instrumentastrology]

New Years Resolutions

Flute: Your year is now monochromatic! Congratulations. Pick a color, or spin a wheel to spice it up. You can only wear, eat, and touch things of that color! Go on, you've earned that pink Mendini Flute.

Oboe: You have entered your soothsayer era. You now exclusively speak in rhymes and riddles. Buy a robe and grow out your hair to really commit to the bit. Drape your reedmaking supplies conspicuously around yourself for that extra bit of authenticity.

Clarinet: Start applying to reality TV shows - really insist on making the clarinet your entire personality. The Bachelor/ette would be a good place to start, particularly if you stand up the last person standing for your instrument - but I'm not telling you how to live your life.

Bassoon: World's largest ball of twine? Boring. Time to start the world's largest ball of reed thread. Sell tickets under the table and use it to fund your ridiculously expensive hobby.

Saxophone: It's time to reinvent yourself. Who will you be? What will you become? Mortuary Scientist? Squirrel Whisperer? Nurse? What will you sacrifice? Burn all of your material possessions and start over. Give your name to the fae. No takesies-backsies.

Trumpet: It's time to start that gym membership you've been thinking about. Not because there's anything wrong with your body - no. Your body is perfect. You're perfect, you silly creature. But everyone's past catches up to them if they don't stop running from it, so you'd better be ready.

Horn: Learn a new language, to appease the old, green owl god. Select the most obscure one you can find. The weight of its continued existence now rests in your hands. This is your burden to carry for having superior aural skills.

Trombone: Start a cult. What could possibly go wrong?

Euph/Baritone/Tuba: Turn the world upside down and break the status quo. Write a new piece of music, giving all of the glory to the low brass and reeds for once. The flutes get the bass line. Make every rhythm needlessly complicated for no reason, and demand that the editor not fix it. It wasn't a mistake. Make the others suffered as you have.

Percussion: Collect every pencil left on the floor after rehearsal. If your group is good about that, resort to theft. They'll never expect it from you. Create a new..." addition" to the percussion family with your collection. Interpret that as you see fit.

Violin: Join a new niche hobby. But only something that you're good at right away, or it won't be fun. The smaller the hobby, the more likely you are to claw your way to the top. Success at all costs.

Viola: Create short-form videos on the internet in which you take on the persona of an entirely new person who time-travels and does not play the viola. Build a following. Once achieved, pull the rug out from under everyone and tell them you were a violist all along.

Cello: You broke an item when you were a small child. You might not remember what it was - but the ghosts do. They've been biding their time, waiting to exact their revenge. You'd better study up and figure out how to best prepare for that.

Double Bass: Saving money will be critical for you this year. Big instrument = big debt. Look on the bright side, gigs are often plentiful for someone of your caliber, and if the mob comes for you, you'll probably fit in the case...

Piano: You should really get outside more, you've been looking a little pale lately and the vampire rumors have started. If those rumors are true and the outside is indeed dangerous, then bring the outside in with a few new plants at the windows.

[cavenewstimes]

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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]

Doublereed teachers and students: Let me know if you are interested in a back to school care package! I made these posters to be funny a while ago but I ordered way too many of them! DM me if you'd like me to mail you a few! You're gonna want one on your studio door, one in your reed room, one on your fridge and one taped to your bathroom mirror at the bare minimum!!!

[chiaki-kobayashi]

I created a short video on how to make an oboe reed!

part1😃

[thereedblog]

Reed making session: the wrapping🤓

Please, remember good things take time

[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]

like just look at this thing

baroque reeds look like the inbred bastard offspring of unethical animal husbandry compared to modern oboe and english horn reeds but they're actually much more closely related to the wild ancestor of them all which is very fucked up in the head

[jairooboe]

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[musicmajorx2]

Yes, I collect shot glasses, which is a fact that people who know me would find quite ironic. But they have their use in reedmaking.

[ioboesess]

I want to make reeds today but I don’t have a smooth flat clear surface and I’m Hecking Picky about how I make reeds.

Also my whetstone is not ceramic and I don’t know what to do with it but water just soaks into it (the instructions literally said “soak it in a tub of water” but that doesn’t work it still comes out pretty much dry)

[sleepless-sincerity]

More reed prep! 🎶🎶 #qys #queenslandyouthorchestra #oboe #oboelyf #reedmaking #orchestra #oboereeds