Klarinet Archive - Posting 000176.txt from 2001/10

From: Georg.Kuehner@-----.de (Georg Kuehner)
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed Resurfacer
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 09:35:05 -0400

I do my reeds from the very beginning (tube cane) by myself.

If the reed is made over several weeks:

- The tubes get get correct length and be splitted to 3 or 4 reeds (put in
destillated water for five minutes and dried)
- the bottom is made plane (afterwards put in destilled water and then dried)
- the "back" is taken away (afterwards .....)
- The shape of the reed is made (afterwards...)

The reed is blown in THEN don´t have to plan the reed table very strong!!!
When do this a take stone garnet about 400 to get the reed in shape again.
If i only want to get the water out of the reed i take a japanese sharpening
stone about garnet 4000 and press the reed on it - the humidity is taken out of
the reed and the is not working so strong as wet reed would do.

I´m sorry that my english is not the best. If there ae any questions feel free
to ask!

Georg Kühner

agalper schrieb:
> Reed Resurfacer
>
> In recent months there has been a lot mentioned about Vandoren's
> ligature- the Optimum.
> In Vandoren's catalogue they also advertise another useful tool, the
> Reed Resurfacer.
> This is what they say:
>
> Two different grades of abrasive on a perfectly flat surface make it
> easy to make the reed table absolutely flat again for perfect mouthpiece
> contact, in the event of warpage.
>
> I myself use something like this by having a plate of glass with some
> abrasive paper on it.
> I merely hold the abrasive paper down on the glass and move the reed up
> and down.
>
> I use garnet 150 to get the wood I want off.
>
>
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