As a reed--making beginner, I've loved watching your videos. I feel like they've given me a great head-start, and helped to explain some of my early failures. I was choosing shapes and cane suppliers at random and getting random results; now I can add an expert opinion and be a bit more selective. My only complaint is that, with the volume set all the way up on my PC, I had trouble hearing your voice. I'm hoping that next time you might be able to get closer to your microphone or turn up the volume on it. Aside from that, thanks for the great work!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback, I'm hoping for my video collection to just keep growing. I also noticed that the volume was super low for my voice-- after I posted the video, of course-- I'll make sure to check that out next time. Sorry about that!
I know I'm coming to this video late, but I think it might be interesting to compare each cane shape with the instrument each designer plays on. I'm wondering how much their instrument/bocal set up informs their reed preferences. It looks like you play a thick wall Fox, based on the shape of your whisper key. So different reeds could be totally different on thin walled bassoons, and older versus newer bassoons. But after seeing your video, and thinking about this earlier today, I'm considering trying some other shapes to compare to my current preference of Rieger 1. Thank you!
A Van Hoesen shape will work best at 54mm total length of the reed with 27mm tube, and 27mm blade. It's possible the blade's might have been a bit long, which could lead to the reed feeling thin because the tip is wider than it should be.
This has been a fascinating journey to follow! Really enjoyed your rubric explanation and listening to you play each reed.
Wonderful organized and detailed video! Thank you so very much for this awesome contribution to the bassoon world!
As a reed--making beginner, I've loved watching your videos. I feel like they've given me a great head-start, and helped to explain some of my early failures. I was choosing shapes and cane suppliers at random and getting random results; now I can add an expert opinion and be a bit more selective. My only complaint is that, with the volume set all the way up on my PC, I had trouble hearing your voice. I'm hoping that next time you might be able to get closer to your microphone or turn up the volume on it. Aside from that, thanks for the great work!
Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback, I'm hoping for my video collection to just keep growing. I also noticed that the volume was super low for my voice-- after I posted the video, of course-- I'll make sure to check that out next time. Sorry about that!
I know I'm coming to this video late, but I think it might be interesting to compare each cane shape with the instrument each designer plays on. I'm wondering how much their instrument/bocal set up informs their reed preferences. It looks like you play a thick wall Fox, based on the shape of your whisper key. So different reeds could be totally different on thin walled bassoons, and older versus newer bassoons. But after seeing your video, and thinking about this earlier today, I'm considering trying some other shapes to compare to my current preference of Rieger 1. Thank you!
I actually play a puchner 5000, but I agree, different instruments/players are 100% going to have different preferences!
A Van Hoesen shape will work best at 54mm total length of the reed with 27mm tube, and 27mm blade. It's possible the blade's might have been a bit long, which could lead to the reed feeling thin because the tip is wider than it should be.