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The Roy Version 3 Oboe Gouger
Introduction to the latest line of Double Radius Oboe gougers. A slightly different guide allows for a stronger gouge but with a beautiful tone and lightness in the reed. This video gives a brief description as well as an example reed to see and hear.
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Maintain Perspective While Scraping Reeds
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This is a quick way to eliminate tip issues when making reeds with unknown gouges or cane. A simpler approach to scraping oboe reeds. www.pierreroyoboe.com
Sketch to Score in Cubase Pro
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1. Piano Sketch 2. Building Template 3. Copy and Paste then Arrange Parts www.pierreroyoboe.com
Roy Pre-gouge Planer for Oboe and English Horn
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Overview of combination pre-gouge planer for Oboe and EH cane preparation. Available at pierreroyoboe.com.
Working with very Weak Cane
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How to handle sagging pitch, and unfocused reeds because of a weak gouge or very weak cane
How to Handle a Heavy Gouge
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In this video I describe the best way to get a "big" heavy reed to play well. Whether it is a heavy weak gouge (which is usually the case) or soft, weak cane. It's important to change the technique of scraping the tip to bring a dolce quality in the reed. Music; Concerto for Horn, 3rd Movement "Waltz" Pierre Roy 2023 No advertising money is made from any of my videos. They are free to the publi...
The Beginning Scrapes for Better Consistency
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Scraping the initial tip to ensure smoothness of the blend and overall more consistent vibration. www.pierreroyoboe.com
Concerto for French Horn
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Recent composition. Concerto for French Horn and Orchestra. A Graduation gift. www.pierreroyoboe.com/music
The Importance of Rattle
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Establishing a nice relationship between the tip and the heart at the beginning of scraping the oboe reed. www.pierreroyoboe.com
American Oratorio for the Father of Creation
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pierreroyoboe.com/music.html Click on the SoundCloud link for the complete work. My most recent composition in Time for Easter 2023. An Oratorio as an Homage to the Creator.
Final Finishing of the Reed
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Usually on the stage before a concert or when one needs an audition quality reed.
CLEANING THE SCORE IN CUBASE PRO 9.5.3
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This video deals with the initial settings and Cleaning the Score in Cubase Pro 9.5.3 so that it represents a more professional look.
A Word about the Curve
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This Video is to help explain some basic principals regarding European vs American gouges with respect to the Guide, Blade, Bed and overall Curve. It is merely an introduction to the gouge as there are other aspects not covered. Visit pierreroyoboe.com for gougers and more.
Peep Rattle and Crow
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This video emphasizes the beginning stages of oboe reed making. www.pierreroyoboe.com
The New Roy English Horn Gouging Machine
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A brief description of my latest gouger.
Concerto For Oboe Second Movement by Pierre Roy
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Concerto For Oboe Second Movement by Pierre Roy
Pitch before Tone and Slope before Sides
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Pitch before Tone and Slope before Sides
Quartet for Oboe and Strings by Pierre Roy
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Quartet for Oboe and Strings by Pierre Roy
Thank you for this video! My teacher, Hans Lindner, made reed that were much more like the DeLancie reeds and this explains why whenever I've tried other people's reeds, and tried to purchase a reed in an emergency, they've felt so strange and given me a completely different sound. As Cooper mentioned below there's more contouring to the heart, but also he always emphasized that the spine goes through the tip, so while it's thin, there's a bit more of a defined line running through to give it stability and a defined core to the tone. His style also has longer windows going further back so that affects that balance quite a bit too.
I like these reed videos but
Very informative and helpful, as are all your videos. Thanks for doing these!
Hey Pierre, where do you usually start the heart at? 61?
Great question. Usually 61 for a 5mm length is good. However, when I start the catch its about a third of the reed from the back. Different cane will demand different lengths of the heart depending on how the cane resonates and where the center of the reed feels. If the reed is tight, or stuck, I will move the back of the heart forward. You will see this in pictures of other players reeds where there will be scrapes in the back of the heart which look like blending. This starts to get into the balance of the back and the tip. Slightly different for different styles.
Can I buy one of your shaper tips?
Hi James, the best way is to go to my site Pierreroyoboe.com and use paypal. Make sure the correct address is in the purchase. Thanks.
Thank you for your continued posts imparting such good help!
Thank you Pier!!!! Your tips are terrific!!! and help me to improve my reed making!!!
What do you do with the cane after you run it through that planer? The results of that don't look like any oboe or english horn reeds I have ever seen.
I hope you are monitoring comments for this video. I have found this concept of “rattle” super useful. The only problem I sometimes have is that sometimes I need to push the top of the heart back (resulting in base of heart starting as low as 64) in order to make this happen. 73mm blank . Any suggestions?
Hey Ross, perhaps the gouge is heavy and scraping the channels more may help
Thanks I’ll try being a little more aggressive there
Also any thoughts on how steep the V at the top of the heart should be?
I've been having a tendency to discover that I've wrapped a bit past the tube. Maybe the width of one wrap. I swear it seems to move on me over time. How does that affect the reed?
Hi, the reed will creep around the tube unless you wrap against the side slip.
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I just found your channel. I wish you had the time to put out more videos. you are the Bob Ross of your profession. I'm sure I'm not the first one to say that.
wow thats so cool! im not throwing away my weak cane anymore! it can make a good backup reed
Thanks. I’ll give this technique a try.
Thanks for your video 🙏
Thanks for your thoughts on this topic. I was wondering what makes the EV shaper tip well suited for a wide variety of reeds? I think the side profile of the reed you made is like the gold standard of what an American Long Scrape reed should look like. I think most reed makers struggle with making that subtle transition from the heart into the tip and probably tend more towards a cliff edge profile instead of a subtle slope as you demonstrated.
Thank you, that was helpful.
Have you ever noticed and shared knowledge on how the shapes affect the qualities of the reed? Or how a player should choose a gouger that best suites them? I'm thinking of experimenting beyond my current Caleb shaper tip. Yes, the Ross gougers are wonderful. I have two since i also play english horn.
So much insight. Terrific!
This is life changing info you are putting out there!
Full shit... 😂😂😂
Hi Pierre, I am having trouble with my low C key not producing a sound. Could you please offer assistance? Thank you!
Hi, if the low D is playing there might not be enough spring holding the C# down. Sometimes you can wrap a rubber band around the instrument and across the C# tone hole key to hold it down tightly. If the D doesn’t come out well it’s probably the F resonance key. Needs tightening.
Hey again, I was trying to solve your issue without looking at the instrument. There is an adjustment screw for the Low C-C# key and it might be too tight. Try loosening it and that will enable the C key to fully close. Sorry for the previous answer that may or may have not worked. Best
C-D# I mean. Again without looking. I have a pic if you need.
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Cool.
My teacher was Earnest Harrison and he was a master Reed maker. David Weber was a close friend and I worked with him he was as good as you can get in understanding the double radius gouge and setting up gougers.
Hi Pierre, Cooper here... I think a lot of things you got right about the differences, but I did notice a few things that you might have missed. Having said that, I never had the opportunity to study with de Lancie himself but I saw a handful of his reeds from David who explained every detail of them. I did sit at the desk of David Weber for 3 years when I lived in Chandler. My wife was the office assistant there (would pack up orders, answer phones etc) and I would go pick her up every day, usually stopping by and talking with David for 15 mins... which would extend for an hour until it was dinner time. Some days I spent 12-15 hours in his shop watching him repad an instrument, pin a crack, or heaven forbid, fix a gouging machine which he hated... I'll never forget asking him if I could buy a graf blade for him and he put me in the car, drove me to the hardware store where we bought steel strips, sand paper, drill bits, a blow torch, and motor oil (for oil quenching). Some 20 hours later I had 15 new graf blades and blisters all over all 10 fingers. The biggest thing you talk about is the taper, and while this is true about the tip (tapering all the way to the end), it is also true for the heart, as well as the windows. David said the Philadelphia style had to taper to the middle of the heart, and then back down to the thinnest place in the windows and back up. No hard ledges or lines, just one constant hourglass shape. Based upon your video, it seems like the thinnest place on your reed is about the middle of the window. David always taught the thinnest place was just behind the heart, otherwise the top 1/3rd of the window and taper back up to the bark. Another thing was that the tip and the heart always tapered from side to side. The scrape of the side of the heart was thinner than the middle, and so it almost had a complete dome shape (not visably domed, but if you measured it with a micrometer the side next to the rail was much thinner than the middle and channels). This concept of the heart was much different from Mack who actually referred to the heart often as the "plateau" implying that it was basically parallel from a side view from the back of the heart to the front. The effect of this is obviously adding more resistance to the reed to blow against (something you talk about when you mention his strong airstream). The windows were always somewhat parallel in the lowest places. With the tip being parallel, heart being parallel and windows being parallel, this created a purportionally thicker and more stable heart to blow against, which you describe. The final big thing that isn't mentioned is the overlap. de Lancie and Mack both used the overlap but in different ways. de Lancie would scrape both the left and right sides of the reed differently, so that the left side rail and window would kind of collapse into the overlap, thus creating tighter sides and a more focused sound. This is why the double radius was so important obviously because it was strong enough to hold up. There's more I could mention, but everything you say makes sense to me. More pieces to the puzzle to see the overall picture.
Cooper, thanks so much for your comments. Very interesting and insightful! Please forgive my delayed response.
How far back is it when you start? 66mm
Would also like to know who you’re referring to. Thx
I believe it’s David Weber
Required viewing!!
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Love that Landwell knife. Having a great knife is so important. When I got my first Landwell I noticed an immediate improvement in my reedmaking due to the amount of control you have when scraping.
Regarding symmetry, Something I’ve found helpful is standardize my scrapes so I’m more or less doing the same thing with every scrape. When you get to that point, I like to count aloud my scrapes, that way if I decide to 20 on one side of the blade, I’ll do twenty three more times. Counting scrapers is tedious but it really helps to maintain the symmetry between the two blades.
Really cool video. I think it’s really cool how every oboist makes their reeds slightly different but their tendencies can for the most part can be traced back to who taught you and who taught your teacher. One of my favorite oboe books is the Reed styles book that shows different reeds made by famous oboist from around the world. Someone should publish an update to this, showing how reddmaking had progressed.
I’ve played lots of oboes over the years but never had the opportunity to play a Laubin. I tell students looking to buy an instrument to play as many oboe as you can and ignore the brand, since all brands have duds and diamonds. When I bought my oboe ten years ago, I was at first shocked that out of the ten oboes I tried one of the lorees was an absolute gem. I totally expected to get something other than a loree, but it truly was an exceptional instrument and it’s still the best oboe I’ve ever played. I imagine a boutique company like laubin produces far more diamonds than duds, but every company makes the occasional perfect oboe, you just have to look for it. The way you describe your reedmaking sounds similar to what I’ve concluded after years of experimenting. Reeds need to vibrate fully from tip all the way through. A lot of students I see somehow learned that harder reeds are easier to intonate and have a more consistent tone so they play harder and harder reeds. This is true, but you have little control over your color or dynamics and you have to work so hard to make the Reed speak. I like softer reeds and am always trying to convert students to give up the popsicle reeds.
These videos are really answering several questions I had about beginning and finishing the tip. When I first began reedmaking, I would succeed in producing that “rough scrape” without knowing what I was doing. In fact, I thought I was making a mistake because of the lack of definition. Somehow my teacher and I were always able to make decent reeds from those initial attempts. Later, I tried to be more careful and put that definition in at the start. I ended up with tips that were thick in the center, with aggressively thinning sides. The reeds felt huge in the mouth, and I couldn’t understand where I was going wrong. Now I know I wasn’t prioritizing “slope before sides”.
This is just black magic. I scrape, and scrape, and scrape, and produce utter crap. I probably need to sharpen my knife better.
thanks for the video! very interesting
The tone became lighter, and seemed free'er after your dusting polishing. It locks in light stability too.
.. I was just working on finishing some old reeds, and here you are again! Terrific!
Thank you for making this video and sharing your insights! It was nice to hear you mention David Weber. I got my first gouging machine from him when I was 18 (I’m 57 now). I also made reeds for their (he and Vendla) business for many years until they retired. I’ll be sure to share this with my colleagues, I’m sure they’ll find it fascinating.
I hope you can meet Greg Undo at the NAMM show! Yamaha/Steinberg.
Dorico Elements is free and you can use 2 vst instrument tracks.
I used Score to copy the Britten Fantasy for strings and oboe. Using VI Solo Strings ... WOW!
Using Halion, within Cubase, you can create your own samples of your own oboe articulations. Greg Undo will help anyone with Score questions since it is part of Cubase of which Greg is the Yoda for Steinberg software such as Cubase or Nuendo, Wavelab etc. You Pierre are our Yoda for Oboe reeds and more, as you are doing here! See us on CZcams every Tuesday and Friday 10 am Western time for 4 hours for Cubase users all over the world! Please say hi to Greg and they'll know who I am :-)
And it was Steinberg that designed and implemented the VSTi (virtual studio technology instrument) for loading and using samples. I also use the Vienna Solo Strings samples and there are literally hundreds of articulations. But Cubase is already loaded with everything you need!
And Dorico is the newest music writing/scoring from Steinberg software that's upstaging Finale.
Ah ha! Congrats! Cubase 12 Pro and Score is awesome!!! I've used Cubase and Score since Cubase SX!
gracias PierreRoyOboe :)
Height of b key critical for high C# too. My AK Loree is almost closed, maybe a 1/2 mm perfect for me. Poulenc uses high passages with the high C# and D# in the Trio.. and in the Sonata too, in octave drops... tempting us to use the trill fingering for high C#, quickly dropping to the octave below. Fun stuff.
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This EXACTLY. Most oboists don't want to get into the technical aspects of reed making. Once I learned how the double radius gouge can improve American style reed making with proper adjustments, I started to have better and better results with my reeds. The measurements Pierre talks about are so key to American reed making. You need a strong spine at .60 or so, then let the gouge quickly taper for better vibration. I think the Ferrillo guide I use for my gouger is .54 or .53 in the same area Pierre describes. Then the sides can be thicker at .47 or so and adjusted slightly to preference. Taking measurements of your gouged cane (and making sure they're proper) before shaping will save you a TREMENDOUS amount of time and effort. I just couldn't make good American reeds until I understood this. I would use a single radius gouge and end up with something I had to scrape like crazy and the sides would be too thin. It was REALLY difficult to get a good spine as well. A proper gouge can save you so much time and headache. Also loved your video on Laubin reeds - I definitely find that the blend must have a more gradual taper. I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you!