Klarinet Archive - Posting 000225.txt from 2001/01

From: rgarrett@-----.edu
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed trimmers
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 20:57:45 -0500

At 05:45 PM 01/07/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> I've tried to avoid this because I don't enjoy messing with reeds
>-- easier to trash them -- but I need to buy a reed trimmer. I
>remember that some of you have had bad results with a particular brand
>of trimmer. Is the Cordier ($25 mail order) the 'plenty good for the
>average Joe' brand?
>
>Thank you,
> Bill Wright

That's the kind I use - but if you can select from several, it would be
good. Take an old reed and clip it with different ones - some of them clip
off center - find one that doesn't.

I also own a Vandoren reed clipper - it's not bad - but expensive.

R

Roger Garrett
Assistant Professor of Clarinet
Director, Symphonic Winds
Advisor, IWU Recording Services
Illinois Wesleyan University
School of Music
Bloomington, IL 61702-2900
Phone: (309) 556-3268
Fax: (309) 556-3121

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