Adjusting Your Oboe Reed - (Something to Crow About!)

Making adjustments to your oboe reed can be a confusing process. Good thing Tess and Suz are here to help you make the adjustments with examples and exercises in this video! Learn how to make reed adjustments for tone, pitch, and response by shaping and clipping the cane. Test your adjustments with easy to follow instructions and exercises!
Deliberate Thought Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@AnishProductions]

I feel that the travel test is genius!! And something many people like myself never considered. It helped me a lot to get reeds that respond effortlessly in the low register. 😊

[@ecmcomichael1]

Very helpful information. I'm closing in on five years playing and have never made my own reed - work and my time don't permit it - so I have found a decent commercial source, but sometimes those require adjusting. I'll be watching this over and over again as I get better at adjusting my reeds. Soon, I'll retire from my job (I'm 62) and finally have the time to make my own reeds. I sure love playing this instrument (as well as the English Horn) and only lament having not discovered this joy years ago! Thank you again for your You Tube channel and the information you're sharing with others!

[@trdelaplain]

Thank you!

[@fritzer5151]

Thanks for all of the helpful tips on reed adjustments. Viewed video just when I didn't know for sure where to make the adjustments on the reed. Thanks again

[@RoseCadenza]

Thank you! A new reed I had gotten was sharp. So I had scrape some cane off. Love this video!

[@NJGuitar]

Your reed making videos are really excellent and detailed! I am self-taught and was able to make well playable reeds in no time!

[@maloneap64]

Thanks for these tips to grow about.

[@spottedhorse7]

Great video, I plan on taking up the Oboe soon!

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Wow ...what an incredibly precise art this is, wonderful. Thumbs up.

[@pepekay6259]

Wow this is such a useful and informative video! Thanks a lot!

[@daniellahernandez9696]

This video was so helpful to me. Thank you!

[@ofeliaperez4323]

this video helped me alot in just starting out and the reeds that í bought were cheap and did not make my oboe sound verry nively or beautifully as other people has described it who knew that just a few changes could make such a difference

[@pwizzle2149]

This video helped me so much!!!! I actually fixed my reed!!

[@isabelacleal9363]

Omg this channel is perfect! Thank you so much, girls! You're amazing!

[@GrotrianSeiler]

Really excellent explanation. How long did you play before you decided to try making your own reeds?

[@ericoschmitt]

To close the tip I found that if you close the end of the reed with your finger, spit in and suck on the reed, hold a bit, it will close. Worked for me, but hey I'm a cellist and playing oboe for fun.

[@Ethic007]

I clicked on this randomly and immediately recognized the voice. Hi, Dr. Delaplain!

[@MattAllenTeller]

It's a great video, but I do not hear the lower octave C in any of the crows. Even on headphones. ???

[@lexxiuuscore]

Hello, i find this video very fascinating! but i have a question, does these tests helps for the European form? i do my own reeds but i've never heard of these tests (well just the crow one) but for adjusting and european, would i follow the same tests you ladies show and do the same scraping (sorry my english is not my first language)

[@taforacho5693]

What excerpt was that? It’s also in the intro

[@harley258]

from the ouverture to la scala di seta by rossini :)

[@pedroj.delgado5199]

Frame in minute 3:42. Who is that angel laughing?. Tess or Suz?.

[@rachaelelliott1758]

What are the best pre made reeds that you know of.

[@It_swill]

This video is great! I am wondering, have you tried to scrape a European style reed ( German U- scrape, French Short- scrape )? I scrape and play a French scrape and am told my tone is quite warm and dark.

[@trdelaplain]

Hi William, yes we have tried those reeds. We are focused here on making the American scrape reed, though.

[@annikagibbons4146]

What are the tools you need/are using to adjust these reeds?

[@RoseCadenza]

Apparently I need to get myself a better knife or something. I have a really hard time trying to shave any cane with it, and it just messes up the tip of my reeds. I don't know if it's something I'm doing wrong or if it's my knife. But I ruin a lot of my reeds because of my knife. Anybody have any ideas?

[@nooylimango4964]

Hello! I'm just starting out oboe,, what if you can't play the upper register yet? Is it still possible to test the pitch?

[@Kevin-vi9rj]

What do you do if the reed doesn’t respond in the lower register and the higher register

[@somethingtocrowabout1408]

Tess: For the lower register problem, try scraping more out of the back. For the high register, try scraping more off the tip.

[@d.m.3663]

#RIP to all the reeds I’ve ruined practicing lol.

[@flaviodecarvalho6546]

I cut my reed and it stopped working!

[@HowardWilliams-x5c]

Very helpful 8:12