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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 2007/09
From: "Richard C. Ramey" <rcramey@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Re: doublereed Digest 2 Sep 2007 09:01:01 -0000 Issue 1756
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:02:29 -0400
Hi, Lee,
Can you give us specific instructions on how to construct this LED-light arrangment? You mentioned an LED (available at Radio Shack, probably?), a resistor and a 9-volt battery. How do you connect all of these items? Thanks...Richard
Richard Ramey
Professor of Bassoon
University of Arkansas
----- Original Message -----
From: Lee Lowry <leel@-----.net>
Date: Sunday, September 2, 2007 10:46 am
Subject: [DR-L] Re: doublereed Digest 2 Sep 2007 09:01:01 -0000 Issue 1756
To: doublereed@-----.org
>
> > From: "Harry Searing" <hsearing@-----.net>
> > Subject: Re: BASSOON: looking for clear plaque
> >
> > I still maintain that only with a light plaque will you clearly see
> > differences between the blades of a reed.
> >
> > Harry Searing
> >
> This is exactly what I noted with my LED put up inside the reeds.
> You
> CAN see the differences between the two sides. It worked best for
> me
> with an old English horn reed I no longer use. One side had
> noticeably
> more heart wood left in it than the other, and one side showed more
> careful and complete finishing of the sides of the reed and the
> tip,
> even though both sides looked about the same viewed from the
> outside. It
> also showed that the tip was longer on one side than the other. As
> I
> remember the reed played all right after I made it, but it failed
> sooner
> than I thought it should have (became too resistant unexpectedly).
>
> I also tried it on some cheap oboe reeds I got on eBay that looked
> reasonably good from the outside but when lit from the inside you
> could
> see why they played so horribly. The tip was too thick on both
> sides and
> there were almost no "windows" in the back. They looked like the
> scraping had stopped about half way through making the reed.
> Looking at
> the deficient scrapes on both sides, I find it hard to believe
> whoever
> made them ever tried them on an actual oboe.
> Lee
>
>
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