Klarinet Archive - Posting 000511.txt from 1996/11

From: Roger Shilcock
Subj: Re: Vandoren reeds (fwd)
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 13:37:06 -0500

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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 11:47:26 +0100
From: Joerg Peltzer <peltzer%ON-LUEBECK.DE@-----.UK>
Subject: Re: Vandoren reeds

Ever tried stuff called "Giant Shave Grass", (its from a dictionary)
Every Autumn I go for a walk and harvest it from the shore of a near lake
Its the very best for conditioning your reeds (and for free), if you want
to know more about it, i can tell you!

By the way, if you use sandpaper with "Korundonium", you wont have any
residues on your reeds. I also can tell you more about that if you are
interested.
All for now JP
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Joerg Peltzer Tel. (0451) 70 20 830 - Luebeck, Germany
"Funk is, what you don't play" - Maceo Parker!

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> Von: KIMBERLY L. RIECK <KRIECK@-----.EDU>
> An: Multiple recipients of list KLARINET
<KLARINET@-----.DE>
> Betreff: Re: Vandoren reeds
> Datum: Montag, 18. November 1996 20:13
>
> > I have been through the reed knife (useless for tip work), X-acto
> > knife (great but encourages gouging and overworking or "spotting"
> > and hence uneven voicing), and presently have returned to fine
> > sandpaper. I feel the fine sandpaper allows me to *preserve
> > the manufacturer's slope*. Thoughts? ----Bill Fogle.
>
> (I'm putting my two cents into the cause now)
> My intructor told me to never use sandpaper because it leaves
> unwanted residue on the reed.
> I was a frequent sandpaper user myself until he told me this.
> bye
> Kimberly Rieck
> UW-Superior
Joerg:
By "Korundonium" do you mean very fine aluminium oxide? That's what we
call "emery", at least in the U.K. I think the problem is not that
the
abrasive leaves residues, but that reed material is left on the reed in
the form of very fine dust.
Roger Shilcock