Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2001/05

From: "Patricia Spillane Smith" <pattiesmith@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed Balance
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 22:30:28 -0400

Roger Garrett wrote:

Recording and having other ears listen is a good thing - but it doesn't
give you any feedback about how the reed: responds, feels, articulates, etc

Agreed. I simply was responding to what bill wrote about how people seemed
to be balancing reeds more on how they appeared than as to whether or not
they were responding properly, etc.
There is always a certain "feel" I get with a good reed...I may not always
be able to describe it exactly, but I know it, and I do try to be patient
with a reed and wait a few days before beginning to do any work on it.
Also, for me, articulaion is a key thing. If I do not get nice crisp
staccato, then, the reed is worthless to me. nothing is worse to listen to,
IMHO< than a clarinetist with muddy tonguing.

Patricia Spillane Smith
"Talent just defines what you do, it doesn't define what you are.
Deep down, when you know what you are, you can do anything."
-Discworld

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