[Dave Pollack]

Well, many people wanted to see this so here it is. Here is my attempt at playing soprano sax with an oboe reed - it's my first "Will it Play" FAIL video, and be sure to watch until the end for a sneak peak into a future video

 

[Hipparion]

You're definitely evil !

 

[Dave Pollack]

You're definitely evil !

Thank you!!

 

[tony51]

Looks like you’ll just have to buy a sarrusophone.

 

[10mfan]

You have the most entertaining videos on the Internet for saxophone guys!....and oboe, trumpet, garden hose lovers, etc.....

 

[Dave Pollack]

You have the most entertaining videos on the Internet for saxophone guys!....and oboe, trumpet, garden hose lovers, etc.....

Hahahaha!! Thanks so much. Just trying to have fun and entertain- glad you dig them!

 

[vries1]

If I may add a serious and probably un-entertaining comment - what is missing, to make the combination of soprano sax + oboe reed work, is what @saxoclese would call the volume of the "missing cone" ... corresponding to the volume of the soprano mouthpiece + effective volume of the reed coupling.

Looking at the acoustic studies of "Ninob", the typical soprano sax mpc + reed represent 3.3 cc volume, the reed of a modern oboe - just 0.33 cc i.e. 10 x less. So some sort of long bocal between the sax and the oboe reed would be needed to get a matching system.

Here's the rather technical explanation (in French)
http://la.trompette.free.fr/Ninob/Cone.pdf

 

[Hipparion]

If I may add a serious and probably un-entertaining comment - what is missing, to make the combination of soprano sax + oboe reed work, is what @saxoclese would call the volume of the "missing cone" ... corresponding to the volume of the soprano mouthpiece + effective volume of the reed coupling.

Looking at the acoustic studies of "Ninob", the typical soprano sax mpc + reed represent 3.3 cc volume, the reed of a modern oboe - just 0.33 cc i.e. 10 x less. So some sort of long bocal between the sax and the oboe reed would be needed to get a matching system.

Here's the rather technical explanation (in French)
http://la.trompette.free.fr/Ninob/Cone.pdf

The perfect occasion for you, Dave, to try the soprano+straw (or garden hose if you find one small enough)+double reed combination... ;D

 

[turf3]

Seems like a bassoon reed, on a little bubble shaped thingy, might be the ticket here.

 

[vries1]

Yep, modern bassoon reed, 1.8 cc (geometric +coupling) total volume. It'll probably play, but not very well in tune unless you add turf3's bubbly thingy.

 

[lesacks]

So the Tuba with sax MP only plays one note - but it's a pretty awesome note so we say it plays.
This also only plays one note - but it's horrible so we say it doesn't play.

IMHO we need a better definition of "plays";
If the MP doesn't phase lock with the tube to allow the notes to change with tube length surely it's not really working.