David--

I can only speak for my side of the ocean, but in all my years I've seen hundreds of oboes.
Only one was anything approaching cylindrical, and that was a really old Kimball "orchestral
oboe"-- which wasn't really an oboe in the traditional sense. I'd organize it more 
along the line of:

full-length chorus reeds (trumpets etc)
full-length color reeds (oboes, english horns, french horns, etc)
half-length reeds (clarinets, dulzians, krummhorns, cromornes, et cetera)
other fractional reeds (bzzzzzz)

David Bohn

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Subject: Re: Reeds order (was Beauty)
Date:         Wed, 9 Mar 2011 20:35:15 +0200

Hi Jon, List,

Here be dragons...

Certainly good questions though. A few of my own... AS I see it there are
three families of Reeds - Trumpets, Oboes/Clarinets (ie cylindrical or
near cylindrical) and Regals (everything else). So does one cover every
family before moving on to the next step in the hierarchy? Leave out the
Regals "'coz no-one uses those anymore"?

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