These are a sampling of some of my most exciting upcoming performances. You can get more information about attending these events from the embedded links or by contacting me directly. Check out my blog Prone Oboe, where I preview my weekly orchestra concerts.
Event Information:
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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.
Among the topics covered:
How your hand position might be working against you
Why your left (non-dominant) hand is the more important one
Why you should Pull the cane off rather than pushing
"Petting" the cane
Centering your scrape in the channel
Cross-hatching to smooth notches and walls
"Lifting" a nick out
How to keep a scraping disaster from worsening
The CURL, and a visualization for tip constructionThat's a lot for 10 minutes!
https://youtu.be/7vAZPw9it_c
Here's the YouTube playlist with all of my other Five Minute Reedmaker videos. You could subscribe right there if you wanted to - I'm dropping a video each week until I run out of things to talk about.
Here's my website, where you can order reeds or cane or ask me questions. Questions will keep these videos flowing!