Klarinet Archive - Posting 000285.txt from 1996/10

From: Benjamin Maas <bm004e@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: I think it may be time...
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:01:04 -0400

As far as reeds go, here is my take on things:

I have tried many different reeds over the years and they all have strengths
and weaknesses. I have tried the Zondas and really like the sound that I
get with them, yet they are also quite strange. The reeds that I have been
playing (the Zondas) feel soft, but yet they don't sound soft, and I
experience more fatigue than when I play paticularly hard reeds. I don't
know why, but I do. I don't have measuring equipment to find out, but is
the shape made so there is a thicker "heart" to the reeds than many of the
Van Dorens?

As for Mitchell Lurie: He generally makes his own reeds. The reed that he
used to make the Brahms and Mozart recordings is still in occasional use.
He finds that a good hand-made reed can last a really long time.

Ben

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