Klarinet Archive - Posting 000433.txt from 2001/10

From: "Don Hatfield" <dhatfield310@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Water
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 23:27:52 -0400

I have tried a variation or two of this in the past, but as with a lot of
things got away from the habit....and agree it works, empirical evidence or
no. I tried the medicine bottle approach in college twenty-five years ago
after seeing a jazz reed doubler/clinician, Tim Eyerman, perform at our
school. He usually perfomed on at least seven or eight reed instruments in
clinic and concert. He showed me how he kept his reeds in a container of
water, and would sometimes perform something like Tony's dunking routine
during a performance. When I asked why he thought it worked and was a good
practice, his answer was that he didn't really think about the how or
why...it just worked for him.

I will have to try the phone card bit as well....thanks for refreshing my
memory about old habits that worked, Tony!

Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx

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