Interesting Topic: Different types of crows?
Thursday December 04 2008
So my website template design has run out, so I was looking at other reedmaker’s websites for ideas. I was looking at Meg Cassell’s reedmaking business website and noticed she had a blog. It had an interesting topic about different kinds of crows.
Do you know that there are two basic styles of American oboe reeds? Question is, is it an oboe reed style or an embouchure style? Kind of a ‘chicken or the egg’ thing.
The two styles of reeds can be categorized, at least in part, as to where the reed is crowed. For those of you who don’t know what the “crow” might be, that is the term we use to check the vibration of the reed we are playing or making.
Many of you may already know all about this, but to me, it is a relatively new way to look at it. Do you crow the oboe reed near the bottom of the thread, with a very passive embouchure, or do you crow it at the bottom of the scrape at the top of the thread, with more of a normal embouchure (slightly looser)? Both kinds of crowing should be a double octave C but where and how the crow is executed seems to reflect an embouchure style. The two styles of reeds/embouchures are NOT… compatible with each other, by and large.
The next blog entry will talk about oboe embouchure styles as they relate to the placement of the crow. Meanwhile, you can experiment with it. Knowing what kind of crow you do and being able to execute both (to distinguish one from the other) may help you determine what kind of reed will work best for you, may help you in your reed making and reed adjusting, and may also help you with your students. If you have any thoughts about this topic yourself, please feel free to email me.
Anyways, I thought this was worth thinking about, and am trying to make sense out of it.
Meanwhile, I’m hoping to have a new website up by next January/February!
Rachel
Feb 26, 2009
Interesting- I ran into that here. I’ve always crowed at the thread, and it took me ages to figure out that the reason couldn’t get the same crow responses as my teacher was because he was crowing in a different place on the reed.
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