Klarinet Archive - Posting 001083.txt from 2000/06

From: mus_ldj@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] V12
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:30:41 -0400

This is a good point. My teacher once told me that Vandoren, intentionally,
doesn't finish it's reed strengths of 4 or 5 because of this. She was saying
they need to be sanded down for size.

"Edwin V. Lacy" wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, George Kidder wrote:
>
> > As I see it (and as I said before): Reed cane has a gradient of
> > density from the hardest just under the "bark" to a much lower density
> > adjacent to the hole in the middle of the cane (where the density is
> > that of air!). That, as Bill said, is the way it grew. The reed is
> > cut as a flat section from the curved cane, and therefore has its
> > highest density under the "bark" (the uncut section) and a lower
> > density at the tip, since some material has been removed from the
> > "bark" side.
>
> This is only part of the story. Even taking the above into consideration,
> if you have many reeds, all cut precisely the same way, same thickness,
> same everything, it still is not only possible but also likely that every
> reed in the batch will be different, due to the characteristics of the
> cane.
>
> Ed Lacy
> el2@-----.edu
>
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