Klarinet Archive - Posting 000312.txt from 2000/04

From: "Michael Lawrence" <belgarath10@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: Tone - the quick way
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:50:19 -0400

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From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subject: Re: [kl] re: Tone - the quick way
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 12:31:31 +0100

A good, if paradoxical way of saying it, with regard to sound, is that
we're teaching them *how to choose reeds*. Because though I can make a
half-way acceptable sound on most reeds, I can't do *what I want* on
most reeds, however I modify my address. The difference between a good reed
and a bad reed is highly dependent on my aspirations for it. So they have
difficulty choosing reeds -- or rather, they don't choose good reeds --
because they lack the aspirations.

In these circumstances, they choose what 'feels' OK rather than what
sounds OK.

Hence the remark that we play the clarinet with our ears. And with our
mental models.>>

I have long been told that reeds can change the entire way in which one
plays the clarinet, and I have had some experience with good and bad reeds.
What I have never known, though, is how to choose a good reed or how to
tinker with reeds to get a better sound. I am going to the Texas Tech band
camp this summer, and I was going to take a reed-making class I have seen in
the past, but unfortunately it is no longer available. Is there any book or
web site that shows in detail how to select *good* reeds? Is there anything
to look for other than straight fibers and a thick heart? TIA

-Michael L.
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