Klarinet Archive - Posting 000545.txt from 1995/10

From: Benjamin Maas <bmas@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: V.12's
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 01:12:02 -0400

>
> To Bradley Hawkins:
>
> I am also having problems with the V12's. The claim is that they last longer,
> but my 4's only last a couple of days. I had first tried 3.5's and then 4.5's
> which were too hard. Do they tend to close up on you also?
>
> Susan Pontow
> Indiana University of Pennsylvania
>

I have a hard time finding reeds that work, as my previous post stated, but
I find that once I have a reed or set of reeds that work, they last for
ever. My current best reed was broken in around christmas of last year. I
played it for all of my summer festival auditions, for my lessons this
summer with Mitchell Lurie, at a festival, for a professional audition this
fall, and most of my lessons this year and many orchestra rehearsals and
practice time. It is the reed that just refuses to die (of course now that
I have posted this I can probably count on it to die). If it has problems,
I let it sit for a couple of days when I don't play it, and it always
springs back to life. It is not real pretty to look at anymore (it is
grayish-black) but it works......

Ben Maas
Eastman School of Music
bmas@-----.edu

   
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