Cockroach tongue

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Scraper tongue, length about 4 cm

A scraper tongue is a tool used to make oboe reeds . During the scraping process, the tongue is inserted between the two reeds to provide resistance to the scraping knife. Scraper tongues are made of steel, hard woods (grenadilla or ebony) or plastics.

Scraper tongue in oboe reed

literature

  • Karl Hentschel: The oboe reed . Moeck Verlag Celle