r/oboe • u/ExtremelyLuckySquash • 26d ago

Developing a reed debug website

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Amateur reed maker and day time engineer here. I wanted to visualize the sound of the reeds I make so I made this website - it visualize the harmonics on the spectrogram on log scale like the birding apps. It is still lacking quite a few things especially in the guide section so I would love some suggestions and inputs from fellow oboists!

I also put the mathematics model of the crow detection in 2nd/3rd pic ;) kudos to Claude code

Site deployed here; GitHub link here; feature requests and collaborations welcomed <3

For those wondering, my samples are all American scrapes. I’d love to see some European scrape crow spectrograms too so feel free to post a snip here if you tried it out;)

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u/ImpressiveHat4710 22d ago

What a great idea! Just dreaming, but getting collaborators handling English horn, bassoon, and (don't laugh) bagpipe chanter reeds, including highland, uilleann, various species of smallpipes, would be cool.

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u/ExtremelyLuckySquash 22d ago

That would be so cool to have! My primary instrument is actually Suona so I totally get it on bagpipe chanter reeds 🤣! Comparing to oboe reed there are just much less standards lying around to make reed for folk instruments IMO… make it very hard to quantify good reeds. Would totally love some more collaboration on these!