Oboe reed making - PART 1- Tube cane selection and gouging

[@katehunt8029]

This is most interesting! I don't play the oboe but have been reading Laila Storch's biography of Marcel Tabuteau. There is a lot of mention of canes, reeds, gouging etc that I had absolutely no idea about. The oboist has a lot of extra work apart from practising the instrument..... which has the most beautiful sound. Hats off to oboists!

[@royresurreccion7940]

Hi sir.... May I know d title of your background music... Its so beautiful piece.

[@nomorebushz]

Flexibility tester... never seen that before, interesting but would add to the budget as well. But nice demo.

[@vlad1slavfedorov]

What do you think which cane has the most dark sound ? And how depend thick of cane on reed.

[@peterkovacs1397]

Hello, is hard to say it, there is lot of canes with dark sound, also You can make it with Your style of scraping. Now I use a cane from Turkey, which is hard cane, has nice sound. I use Lavoro and Rigotti also and they has nice sound too. I use thickness between 56-58/100mm For me is less so soft and more than 58,59 is hard, If You use harder cane. It depend on hardness of Your cane.

[@vlad1slavfedorov]

@@peterkovacs1397 thank you!

[@bw3446]

I've watched your whole reed making video series and I like it very much. Very good information and nice presentation. You know your stuff. Since you mentioned that you play a lot of opera, may I ask where your orchestra is based?

[@peterkovacs1397]

I play in State Opera in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, since 2012.

[@bw3446]

@@peterkovacs1397 So you are even "vedúci skupiny hobojov". It's a pleasure talking with you!

[@peterkovacs1397]

@@bw3446 Yes, Iam ☺️, more solos in 1. oboe 😉😀😀 You are welcome 😉

[@junck2381]

Super cool... what’s the sum total of the price of the equipments you use? Guilotine, gauger, splitter, knife, etc? Must be very costly to have them all...

[@peterkovacs1397]

Thank You 😉 I dont know the total price, I bought it separately, from year to year. I was making my reeds lot of year by hand, ( maybe 15 years ) without machines. I had only hand shaper, mandrel and knife 🙂 But, its a big help for proffesional life 😊

[@noah.oboe.]

I use the Reeds n Stuff gouger as well. What bed and blade size do you use?

[@peterkovacs1397]

Hello, my gouger has 10,75 bed, and I used a 11,41 blade and now 11,70, which makes a little bit thinner sides.

[@Angela.o.b]

Hello! I have a question, when you use the precision scale, how would you translate the results to the hardness tester? I mean, if you get 20 on the precision scale, how much would that approximately be on the hardness tester? Thank you very much!!

[@peterkovacs1397]

Hello 😉 It depends on each cane You have, You get results maybe between 0,17 to 0,30 and You can choose which is good for You by trying it, and You get result that for You with Your cane is good 0,22, ( its a example ) I did the compare now for You, and with my cane is 0,225 on scale the 9 on hardness tester and 0,200 is 13 But as I said, it depend on the cane. So , I hope it will help You 😊

[@Angela.o.b]

@@peterkovacs1397 thank you very much! Yes, this actually helps a lot! Greetings from Budapest! 😊😊😊

[@spapeztheoctopus3249]

Ya no way in hell I’m gonna try this for a long time

[@ruanpablo3466]

Can you share a video showing how do you scrap your reeds?

[@peterkovacs1397]

Hello, Yes, Iam working on it 😉 I hope till the end of the week it will be ready.

[@littlebirdblue]

Could you possibly supply links to the tools you used in this video (or similar)? Some of the digital tools I'm not familiar with, I'd love to look at them! (Also, love this video!)

[@peterkovacs1397]

Hello, If You mean the flexibility tester and hardness tester, here is the link :-) www.eg-reeds.com/shop/reed-making-machines/reed-making-machines-k-ge/flexibility-test-machine-k-ge/ www.uwe-henze.de/product_info.php?products_id=4319 www.reedsnstuff.com/en/Oboe/Measuring-Testing/Digital-Hardness-Tester.html