Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 2001/03

From: Nick Shackleton <njs5@-----.uk>
Subj: [kl] Warped reeds
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 06:11:25 -0500

I believe that the answer to Dee Hays is that the more open your
mouthpiece tip is, the less critical is the flatness of the back part of
the reed. If one uses a typical German lay, long and close, it is extremely
critical; sometimes I have to use a fily on a reed every day for its first
week of playing. Nick
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:31:03 -0500
From: "Dee D. Hays" <deehays@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Warped reeds
Message-ID: <003701c0a1de$84945860$5c72903f=computer>
I have been watching this thread with great interest and puzzlement. I've
never done anything special to my reeds and have never had a warpage problem
no matter where I have lived. All I do to a reed is wipe it off and put it
either in an ordinary reed holder or in the plastic holder that it comes in
(not the jointed ones like Mitchell Lurie comes in but the slide in ones
like the Vandorens come in). Yet one lady who sat beside me always had
terribly warped reeds, never could figure out why. So local climate doesn't
seem to me to matter so very much.
Dee Hays
Michigan

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