Klarinet Archive - Posting 000415.txt from 1998/07

From: glsk622@-----.com (Gary L Smith)
Subj: Re: [kl] Larry Combs (LC1) for beginners?
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 07:59:37 -0400

Actually, Bill, you've touched on something here - even more experienced
players fall prey to this idea that a harder reed is always better - that
you should play as hard a reed as you possibly can. Not true - while
playing a harder reed does yield benefits in terms of tone quality and
intonation, those benefits become moot if you can't play below FFF, or
for more than 15 minutes, or...

Gary

On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:41:58 -0400 Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
writes:
>the
>general desire to push everyone to play on 2x4's under the misguided
>notion
>that each 1/2 step up in reed strength will make them 1/2 step better
>players has no doubt frustrated and discouraged many potential
>musicians.
>
>For the record, I still generally play on Vandoren 2 1/2 or Mitchell
>Lurie/Zonda 3, except on my O'Brien OB+, for which I have some ancient
>Symmetricut 4's that seem to work best, proving that, even for one
>individual, one strength is not the answer. It is just one component
>of
>the whole setup.

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