Hello Marin, love your honest contents !!! Could I ask one question regarding this Klastig. What about the projection of the reed? I feel they lack of it somehow. What do you think? Thank you. Regards from Vietnam
Thanks for your kind opinion, I certainly hope that I give very honest reviews. To be honest about the projection I am not very certain as I only played in smaller rooms, I would suspect that it wouldn't do that great compared to normal cane reed in a bigger room/hall but it does sound and play quite nice. For a plastic reed it is definitely a step forward. Again it is possible to adjust them so I would assume it can get pretty close. My feeling overall is that they remind of playing on a reed made of very hard cane that needs to be scraped. If they made the material a bit more flexible it might be better in my opinion.
The second sounds actually great in my opinion. But the boiling water... ugh. I already feel like a bartender carrying water and shot glasses haha. I guess, I'll wait a bit longer.
Yes, it definitely has potential! It is a big step forward and I would agree that the soaking method is not so practical. And yes, imagine the disappointment on people's faces when they realize it's not tequila but just hot water 😁
Thanks for your video! It’s clear the diference but you made them sound great! I agree it’s not practical carrying or looking for boiling water everywhere we go😝
I have played clarinet on plastic reeds for 40 years. The advantages of consistency is so great and nobody can tell the difference. One reed lasted 26years till it got a very small chip on the tip. I now make my own plastic reeds for clarinet and saxophone. 14:45
@@johnkelly4113 thank you for your input, they do work on clarinet much better, I have witnessed and heard. Also very impressive that you make your own now! Maybe I should get into it and develope my own as well.
Maestro, thanks so much for the review. I've tried Legere & Silverstein Ambipoly. The Legere was very difficult to control (I was very new on Oboe at the time). I use the Ambipoly in rotation with several other cane reeds and it works very well. Not sure how long it would last if I used it regularly.
Sounds beautiful! I had a chance to try a Moennig oboe d'amore at the IDRS, and was surprised to find that I liked the more open bell more. It gives a fuller, ringing sound. It's great to have a choice!
Bell definitely had a rounder softer sound. Which makes sense if the bell is compressing and not flaring out the sound waves. Definitely one of those use for the type of music things. That bell would work great on some Bach stuff. Do I play? No. I would have an asthma attack about 5 bars in......😮💨
My favourite instrument, by far. Loved the bells comparison, and I have to say the rounded bell sounds beautiful. The straight bell sounds more "classic" and still beautifull. But the rounded one I loved it. Thanks for sharing.
I agree with your assessment. I thought the more traditional bell had the more covered sound we associate with the oboe d'amore, and the alternate bell gave it more of the cutting quality we expect from the oboe.
Thank you so much for this video! I love your sound on this instrument, regardless of the bell! I also have been playing one of these for about a year and a half now and can definitely confirm the great playability. Intonation is also quite good in the low to mid range, but for me not so much in both the octave key registers. Would also be really curious to know what your setup is regarding staple/shape/reed length for this instrument! I am currently using a Pisoni d'amore staple with H97 shape and total length of 51.5mm. Thanks in advance!
I felt like I was a bit on the sharp side with this reed, I really just made 1 so I can play it for the week I needed. my reed is on a standard French staple and is 52mm long.
I will play the Telemann concerto in G next week, so I practicing my D’amore like crazy this month.😇 The regular bell is more even, easier on intonation and a little “sharper” in pitch The “long” one is slightly flatter and intonation is not as precise. Projection is bigger in the long one but you lose some “warmness” of your timber that the “regular” one has. You sound great in both! Break a leg with your Bach in your concert!🎉😊
I try to play d'amore more and more, showcasing it as a solo instrument. Because I organize my own concerts (as a nearly-no-pay semi-pro) I can program what I want! ... I play a Bulgheroni d'amore with synthetic top joint. My next performance will include Le Repos de Tityre by Charles Koechlin! And anything baroque: instead of 'regular" oboe, I transpose by sight on d'amore!
Fascinating comparison. I agree with you completely, Marin, about the differences in tone quality. The more bulbous-looking bell sounds more like a traditional d'amore, but for my own feeling, I'd say that the straight/conical bell puts the timbre of the instrument somewhere between an oboe and a cor anglais. The straighter bell definitely gives the instrument a somewhat darker, deeper tone. Too bad there was so little composed for the d'amore. Great comparison! I always look forward to your videos.
Thank you so much Marin, such a lovely sound, and I would love to try one!! I'm learning oboe, started 15 months ago, teaching myself. I now have a teacher at last, and she is very good. I would love to try an oboe d'amore, as I really love the low and high registers. Such a pure and mellow sound!! I liked the second bell best too.🤩
Tone is so subjective, yes? To me there is no question the second bell is the more pleasant to listen to. It makes a stronger, more brilliant sound. The first more conventional one makes the instrument sound related to the bagpipes, a bit muffled. The second just makes a more appealing sound. What is the 2nd passage you played? It was so pretty to listen to.
Yes! Maybe you should consider write in the description that it is the European style - I think a lot of people want to find videos of someone scraping European style, so it would help to include that in the description...
New bell is so typically modern, it has just a whiff of stridency like modern clarinet tone, that extra bit of color that I am sure serves all sorts of important musical purposes but loses the smooth round perfection of the old one. The old one sounds like a classic oboe, the new one sounds like an oboe trying to live up to some outside standard.
I would say I preferred the mopane joint, sounded like it had a fuller, slightly richer warmer sound. I’ve seen it online and always considered it more of a visual thing. But the difference is quite noticeable. My partner is not going to be happy if you keep tempting me to a new oboe tho 😝
Wow what a nice video! Thank you very much for all this information! After finishing high school I stopped my oboe lessons because I graduated from the music school and i never learned to scrape my reeds. This video motivates me to pick up the reed making and scraping again! I do have a question about scraping. Can i also scrape more on the side (so more left of more right when holding the reed right in front of you) of the reed? Because i thought by scraping there I did something to the vibration of the reed.. so that's why I am asking just to ne sure if it would do something to my tone or to the vibrations of the reed, or if i could scrape on the side without it having consequences to how the reed sounds?
In this video I could explain in depth I would need a week seminar to do so 😁 still hoping it was helpful! It's important to have a good teacher by your side. Anyway to your question, scraping the sides would make the spine look thicker resulting in a bit more clean sound I would say but It all depends on what kind of gouge you are sitting on. Ideally the scrape should be complementing and working with the gouge.
I play oboe and flute. I took the flute into a music class full of 5 year olds and asked if they knew what it was. “It’s a clarinet!”. The clarinets just have really good PR.
Fantastic and very helpful video. Thanks very much. The one part I would have like to hear more on is the tuning of the crow, especially with your choice of length. I'll look to see if you have covered this as a follow-on or await it eagerly! Thanks again!
Thanks for your comment, very much appreciated. To be honest I never really cared about the tuning of the crow, what I look for is a specific and rich kind of crow that rings and shows me how the reed vibrates. The real test is always together with the instrument, I think this is a better indicator of how the reed is and what might need to be adjusted. That's my way anyway and I guess also the reason why I didn't say much about it.
This is very interesting! I am American, so we use a scrape that goes down the back quite a bit more, but still, this is helpful just to see how you hold the reed and knives and how to make such small adjustments.
For me the mopani has more shimmering, more spin with same depth Oboe prof at Washington State University has a full mopane instrument: I prefer it to one of Cocabola.
If I had to guess I would imagine that it would be better with dentures. Without teeth probably would be more difficult to support the reed. I don't have any experience in those scenarios and can't be sure.
