New from DRShop: Especially for Oboists
Summer 2010

NEW BOOK ON OBOE REED MAKING – AN AMAZING MUST HAVE!! $38.95

When my friend and colleague told me she had just written a book on oboe reeds, gouging, shaping and scraping my first thought was ‘ oh a thousand page scientific treatise!’ It could have been. Valarie Anderson has a very scientific approach to making her reeds consistently do musically for her what her beautiful playing requires -- a whole spectrum of color, range of response and dynamics, while maintaining stability and consistency of pitch.

What more could we ask of our reeds? How about a treatise that we can all understand, those of us who are musicians and not scientists, and in a not too daunting 100 pages? We have it folks!

Gouge, Shape and Scrape, A Complete Guide to the Oboe Reed by Valarie J. Anderson. The J. represents Jeanne Inc., which makes available shaper tips, gouging machines, and specialized tools to make our work easier and more precise. The book explains the process from the beginning, in detail, wonderfully illustrated and photographed, and includes the why and wherefore of every statement concisely explained in understandable language.

Raise your playing to the next level by better understanding your reed making! In one summer you can master what it took most of us 30 years of sitting in Mr. Mack’s Master Classes at Wildacres, and of trial and error experiments to learn! Consistency! A great reed everyday!
The DRShop can ship it to you today for $38.95, a special introductory price!

We still have the Jay Light Reed Making Book available. It is still a good basic approach. Ms. Anderson’s book takes us to the next level.

For further summer reading and thoughts on oboe playing, if you have not read Marcel Tabuteau by Liala Storch It also is a must! It is a fascinating read about the life of one whom we consider the ‘Father of American Oboe Playing’, and also of his biographer, Ms. Storch. But it is more. It is a history of wind playing. It is an understanding of where we were as wind players 100 years ago and how we got to today’s place of understanding, virtuosic playing, a large repertoire, a pedagogy available to every high school teacher, and the availability of good instruments and equipment. The DRShop can also make this available to you for $24.95.

Special: For $72 I will ship both books to you anywhere in the U.S. Further, I will promise by the end of both books you will have become a better oboist, assuming you are continuing to practice and apply the ideas presented!

Find all this and more at the On-line Catalog of DoubleReedShop.com.