Klarinet Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 1996/01

From: juliek@-----.ORG
Subj: Re: Single Reed Making
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 19:38:13 -0500

To: INTERNET: niethamer=URVAX

David--
Thanks for the book titles. I will try to get them and
begin learning all this stuff. Thanks again!
Julianne Kirk

Julianne Kirk wrote:
I am a high school student who is very frustrated with
commercial reeds. I am interested in learning about reed
making. I have learned a little bit about reed adjustment for
example on commercial reeds. Do you have any suggestions of
books to read on reed making? Do you have any other suggestions?

On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Ken Erion wrote:

I had some xerox pages on reed adjusting from: Woodwind Anthology,
A Compendium of Articles from The Instrumentalist on the Woodwind
Instruments, publish by the Instrumentalist, Evanston, Illinois.
I also made notes from the following articles although I don't know
where the articles came from:

Manual of Reed Fixing by David Bonade

Handbook for Making and Adjusting Single Reeds by Kalmen Opperman

I addition to the Opperman, which is the classic, and Bonade, which
is available from Leblanc Publications, as a part of "The Clarinetists
Compendium", there are the following:

1.) The Reed*Mate Reed guide by George T. Kirck
available from Reed*Mate
P.O. Box 1217
Westbrook, Maine 04092
(207) 797-0857

I find this book to be complete and excellent.

2.)Making and Adjusting Clarinet Reeds, by Glenn H. Bowen
pub. by Sounds of Woodwinds
(is this company still in business?)

I also found the following in my collection, but I'm not sure how
good it is beyond an advertisement for the Perfect-A-Reed:

3.) Perfect-A-Reed, by Ben Armato
Box 594, Ardsley, NY 10502

In one sense, reed making isn't hard - the basics are pretty easy to
grasp. It's all that trial and error to find a routine to produce
good reeds for your own mouthpiece - i.e., experience - that
takes all the time. I find the time well worthwhile.

David Niethamer
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