Klarinet Archive - Posting 000317.txt from 1996/10

From: David Blumberg <reedman@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: Reed Conditioning (was "reed water") - Long!
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 1996 09:18:56 -0400

Starr,
The same reed for 20 years? (just kidding), but I do know a very respected Sax
Player (Professor), who has written for the Instrumentalist Mag. who has used
a sax reed for 15 years, and is still using the reed on and off now. I didn't
believe it until he told me himself.
David C. Blumberg
Reedman@-----.com
Ps. I finally memorized (not trying to) the 39 character address for this
group! I gave the address to a student in a Master Class(slowly), and it
sounded more like the Gettysburg Address.

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From: Klarinet - Clarinettist's Network on behalf of Starr Schaftel Wayne
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 1996 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Reed Conditioning (was "reed water") - Long!

Don youngkurth wrote:........
> I store the reeds I'm currently using in Vandoren cases. These have grooves
> in the flat surface against the reed. With conditioned reeds, I have
> essentially no warpage problems. Occasionally a reed that has become very
> dry will show some "ripple" at the tip, but these will typically flatten out
> when thoroughly wetted. Reeds in process or extras are left on a piece of
> plate glass, open to the air, bark side down.
>
> I'm certainly not playing forty hours a week and don't keep track of playing
> time per reed, but I have reeds conditioned as above that have been in and
> out of use over a period of at least 2-1/2 years and are still doing just
> fine.
>
> Don Yungkurth (DYungkurth@-----.com)

I've been conditioning reeds with basically the same method as
the one described above for approximately 20 years, with excellent
results.

Starr Schaftel Wayne

   
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