Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2001/11

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: How to make your reeds work
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:17:03 -0500

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:09:21 -0600, "Lacy, Edwin" wrote:
>
>We have had much conflicting advice about how to treat reeds to obtain
>maximum performance capabilities. However, I'm going to give you the six
>secret steps for treating reeds which will cause playing the clarinet to be
>so much more fun than you have ever experienced!

The best reed behavior modification advice I've seen came across this list
about a year ago. Someone mentioned that every time a reed goes bad, he
deliberately and with ceremony shoves it head first into a wall, but not before
opening his clarinet case so that all the other reeds would have a chance see
what would happen to THEM if they didn't behave.

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- Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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