Klarinet Archive - Posting 000760.txt from 1995/05

From: "Victor M. Wyman" <wymanvic@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: More on Mouthpieces and reeds, reeds, reeds
Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 15:15:07 -0400

>All this talk about dry and warped reeds and searching for the
>perfect mouthpiece gave me an idea.
>snip<
All this talk about mouthpieces. I need sound reed advise, please.
I've been learning clarinet for a good few years, now, but I need some
reed lessons. My collection of old reeds keeps growing and growing. It is
growing at a steady pace. If I don't get some good advice on how and when
to discard old reeds, the day could come when I won't be able to get into
my practice room!
So, please, all of you professionals and competent non-professionals, pray
tell, when do you part with your old reeds?

(The following is for John Baetens)
>My field is computer programming... I remember
>in the old days, when computers (mainframes) weren't as
>dependable as they are now, whenever a programmer's
>program screwed up, the stock answer, usually said in jest,
>was, "It must be a hardware problem".
>snip<
You are probably too young to know. In the good old days it was never,
ever, ever, ever a hardware problem. Hardware crashes are a strictly modern
phenom. IBM 705/704/707/7070/7080 never failed. Elliott/NCR803
and a whole generation of machines circa 1960-65 were made to go forever,
or, at least, until the next preventive maintenance session.
-victor

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