Klarinet Archive - Posting 000540.txt from 1998/08

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: Nasty question
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:38:47 -0400

At 01:53 PM 8/18/98 -0400, Nancy Buckman wrote:
>I also don't have the reed problems that seem to plague everyone else.
>I take them out of the box and slap them on the mouthpiece and maybe
>sand them a little on the right side (I use traditional Vandoren #3.5's)
>and they play like a charm. Been doing this for about thirty-some
>years. Why am I so different from everyone else?
>
Since I doubt that you can attribute this to good fortune in reed buying,
we must assume that you are simply less critical about reeds than some,
able to work around any minor deviations. In this case, consider yourself
very lucky. And if it has been working for you for "thirty-some years," I
wouldn't try to fix it now!

Bill Hausmann bhausman@-----.com
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