Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2001/11
From: lubydjackson@-----. Jackson) Subj: Re: [kl] Leaving the reed on. Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 23:58:35 -0500
LOL!
I'll go have it checked out tomorrow.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Rebetzke" <GRebetzke@-----.au>
Subject: RE: [kl] Leaving the reed on.
> <I even have a cleft in my throat until this day>
> Are you sure you didn't swallow some sheet music? Viral illness is not
> caused by yukky reeds (unless you share them around, of course).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lubydjackson@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 2:03 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Leaving the reed on.
>
>
> No, I don't share myself with anyone so I couldn't have gotten it from
> another person. I even have a cleft in my throat until this day from
that.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gavin Rebetzke" <GRebetzke@-----.au>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:37 PM
> Subject: RE: [kl] Leaving the reed on.
>
>
> > From my limited knowledge of microbiology, it must have been a very rare
> > virus indeed to survive on a reed, no matter how disgusting the reed
was.
> > You most likely contracted your viral illness from some other source.
> Gavin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: lubydjackson@-----.net]
> > Sent: Friday, 2 November 2001 5:37 AM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Leaving the reed on.
> >
> >
> > Adding to what you're saying, I do recount some small black fuzz growing
> on
> > my reeds once or twice. After playing this doomed reed, I contracted a
> rare
> > virus which sent me reeling for about two years.
> >
> > I said all of that to say that one must really know their reeds before
> > practicing these things.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stan Geidel" <sgeidel@-----.net>
> > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:18 AM
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Leaving the reed on.
> >
> >
> > > The issue of leaving the reed on the mouthpiece for the duration of
its
> > > usable life is a curious one. I *have* heard of this practice, but it
> has
> > > only been in the form of stories about players who do this; I've never
> > > personally known of anyone who manages their reeds in this manner. If
I
> > did
> > > know someone who did this, I would ask them the following question:
> > > It seems the purpose of leaving the reed on the mouthpiece is to
> > > preserve its ideal playing position. There is no question in my mind
> that
> > > each reed does, in fact, have an ideal playing position: we make
slight
> > > position changes - higher, lower, left, right. However, in my
> experience,
> > > that ideal playing position changes as the reed changes. For example,
I
> > may
> > > find that as a particular reed ages, I might like to place it a little
> > > higher in relation to the tip of the mouthpiece. If this is true for
> most
> > > players (and I suspect it may be), what would be the point of trying
to
> > > preserve an "ideal" playing position if that position is a moving
> target?
> > >
> > > Stan Geidel
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Tony Wakefield" <tony-wakefield@-----.net>
> > > To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> > > Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 9:59 AM
> > > Subject: [kl] Leaving the reed on.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Tony Pay has brought to our attention the oboists` idea of dipping
the
> > > reed
> > > > (clarinet reed) into a little water as opposed to wetting it with
our
> > own
> > > > saliva. He also lets us know that one or two American(?)
> clarinetittists
> > > > have been known to leave the reed on the mouthpiece for the life
> > > duration(?)
> > > > of the reed.
> > > >
> > > > I have noticed positive and immediate response using this method,
but
> > > would
> > > > ask this: if the reed is left on, it must surely create some kind of
> > > dilemma
> > > > in how to blow in brand new reeds for playing on the mouthpiece
> already
> > in
> > > > use. Unless one has an identical mouthpiece, and even with this way,
> > then
> > > > leaving the reed on, can surely only cause a <faster> degeneration
of
> > the
> > > > reed, due to digested food particles building up on the inside
surface
> > of
> > >
> > > > reed, and will also surely shorten the useful life of the M/P as
> > deposits
> > > > build up, and harden, without cleaning. I have mentioned before that
> > > taking
> > > > the reed off (to clean) and replacing it correctly and accurately to
> > > within
> > > > a couple of thousandths of an inch should not interfere at all in
the
> > > > continuing good performance of the reed, (experienced players will
be
> > able
> > > > to do this to within 1000th of an inch). Indeed it should, with
> positive
> > > > results enhance the life and performance of the reed, as it is being
> > cared
> > > > for, as opposed to neglected if left on.
> > > >
> > > > There are of course the obvious health hazards too, if one leaves
the
> > reed
> > > > on all the time.
> > > >
> > > > I`d be interested to hear further views.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > >
> > > > Tony W.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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