Klarinet Archive - Posting 001280.txt from 1997/10

From: "Kilgore Trout" <satanspilgrims@-----.com>
Subj: Re: 4.5!!!?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:09:04 -0500

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>On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Roger Garrett wrote:
>
>> Semantics.....some boxes say SIZE 2, 3, etc., others just have a
number.
>> Size, in the way we have been referring to it, is the strength or
>> hardness/softenss.
>
>Thanks for this information. I've never heard of this before, and have
>been playing the clarinet for over 48 years. Which manufacturers label
>their reeds as being in different "sizes?"
>
>I admit that the concept is foreign to me. As I conceive of it, "size"
>means dimensions. There are a lot of things about a reed that can be
>measured, including density, mechanical hardness, resilience,
thickness,
>etc. Still, I have always been under the impression that the number on
>the box referred to the degree of resilience of the reed, referred to
>informally by musicians as "hardness."
>
>Ed Lacy
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>

I am sure that we are all under the same understanding that when we
speak of size, strength, hardness/softness, we are all speaking of the
same thing correct?? Actually, Olivieri reeds are slightly longer than
say, the normal Vandoren size. As are several other brands of reeds as
well.

KT

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