Klarinet Archive - Posting 000212.txt from 1998/03

From: Jim Harper <jharper@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: reeds
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 09:54:11 -0500

SJayne3137 wrote:

> I have noticed that clarinet reeds with more brown on the bottom of them,
> seem to be better reeds. Is this a strange coincidence (sp?), or is it
> supposed to be like that?
>
> Sarah
> Houston, Texas

Right. They have a darker quality, an objectively measurable darker quality.
-Jim Harper