Once your rough-scraped reed crows, WHAT THEN? How do you take a reed from beeping to playable? How do you balance it? The Five Minute Reedmaker helps, with this basicContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Finishing
Five Minute Reedmaker: Reed Strengths
This week’s video is about my sorting process: How I organize my reeds to be Medium, Medium Hard and Medium Soft What those designations mean to me How I workContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Reed Strengths
Five Minute Reedmaker: Shaping
My friend Muhammad wrote: Dear Jennet, I’m very interested in knowing how you shape your cane. Some people shape the the top of the ears of the tip and someContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Shaping
Five Minute Reedmaker: Knife Techniques
This is possibly my favorite video so far – I enjoy thinking of different ways to describe the various scrapes and gestures that I use in constructing a reed. AmongContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Knife Techniques
Five Minute Reedmaker: The Windows
Last month I was in a Reeding Circle with two of my regular attendees. It was an exciting event because BOTH of them had major reed breakthroughs and made multipleContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: The Windows
Five Minute Reedmaker: Clipping
Clipping an oboe reed is such a tiny task, and you might do it dozens of times as you construct and polish each reed. Are you doing it safely? DoContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Clipping
Five Minute Reedmaker: Batch Processing, and Quality Control
Yes, I can make a reed in five minutes. And I can play it. But this is not my ideal way to work – the cane needs time to settleContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Batch Processing, and Quality Control
Five Minute Reedmaker: Understanding and Constructing the Tip and Transition
This week I am releasing TWO videos. They go together, but I couldn’t bring myself to combine them – it’s ridiculous for the FIVE MINUTE Reedmaker to appear to takeContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Understanding and Constructing the Tip and Transition
Five Minute Reedmaker: The Beep and the Crow
What can you learn from your reed before you even put it in the oboe? We have two great tools – the beep and the crow. There’s a lot ofContinue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: The Beep and the Crow
Five Minute Reedmaker: Cane Preparation
I had a request for this next video topic: Anish wrote: Hi Jennet! 🙂 I was wondering if you could do a video sometime on your preliminary processes with cane-Continue readingFive Minute Reedmaker: Cane Preparation