Klarinet Archive - Posting 000450.txt from 2002/03

From: "Tim Roberts" <timr@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Re: Reed materials (was Gonzalez reeds; was Reed question)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:28:47 -0500

On Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:18:19 -0800 (PST), Bill Wright wrote:
>
>Okay, I can't reist it. I'm going to buy a bag of tongue depressors
>and try making reeds out of them.
>
>Cheers,
> Bill <the skeptic>

A year or two ago, some posted what I assumed was a true story of working in
the pit orchestra for an opera or musical. The set designers had left lots of
spare pine two-by-fours in the pit area. The two clarinetists eventually
started a challenge amongst themselves: they would peel off a chunk of a two-
by-four during the overture and start to work on it with reed knives; if they
could successfully play the final applause music with a reed constructed from
that chunk, they won the bet for that night.

To me, that is the ultimate reed story.

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

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