Klarinet Archive - Posting 000688.txt from 2000/04

From: "Dan the Rubber Band Man" <saxman105@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Idea for old reeds
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:21:35 -0400

do the reeds not mold or turn really wierd colors after time?

Danny Ehrhart

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hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at
the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it
was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone
before.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "chr" <chr@-----.de>
Subject: [kl] Idea for old reeds

> The room where my husband and I teach at the city music school has one
wall
> covered with reeds. There are literally thousands of reeds on the wall. We
> had boards made which were cut into squares and each board has been
> decorated with reeds arranged in all kinds of ways. Students decorated
their
> old reeds with patterns or with faces for some of the boards. Others were
> colored, or left plain and sometimes cut to fit all kinds of ways. A few
> students who were leaving made a reed board as a present to leave with us.
> One student used a broken mouthpiece and bell and reeds arranged all
around
> it in a very clever way. We have our students save their old reeds for
> future reed boards. We got some of the reeds from the company Steuer from
> reeds they would have discarded but they gave to us instead. We've had a
lot
> of fun with this. Students love doing this too and it makes a nice
> decoration for a clarinet teaching studio.
>
> Cindy in Germany
>
>
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