Klarinet Archive - Posting 000447.txt from 2002/06

From: "Forest E. Aten Jr." <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: "Buzzy" sound ...
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:00:47 -0400

Karl,

I use commercial reeds and always have a good reed on my clarinet. My
"throw-out" rate is no where near the earlier posters 90% rate. I think that
the earlier post, to paraphrase, "people are going to (should) sound better
than you if you are not throwing at least 90% of your reeds away", prompted
the strong response.
I know players that think that they would sound better if they threw 100% of
their reeds away.... :-) I think that we all feel this way at some point and
time. I have a very easy time finding excellent reeds most of the time...but
I always have a day (or two) now and then when things don't work out with
reeds.

F. Aten

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: "Buzzy" sound ...

> Slow down a little. I don't think (unless I missed something) that the
> original statement had anything to do with commercial vs. hand-made reeds.
> It had to do with the rate at which different players discard the
commercial
> reeds they buy as in one way or another unusable.
>
> Karl Krelove
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: The Guy on the Couch [mailto:jnohe@-----.Edu]
> > Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 1:47 AM
> > To: klarinet@-----.org
> > Subject: Re: [kl] Re: "Buzzy" sound ...
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 JEDISUSHI@-----.com wrote:
> >
> > > I absolutely agree. If you're using 90% of your reeds, then 90% of
the
> > > people out there could sound better than you, and it would have
> > nothing to do
> > > with ability.
> >
> >
> > I think several minutes a week on pre-cut reeds is a far better use of
> > time than several hours on reeds by mine own hand...because those
several
> > hours can be used for practice. Your results might be different. But I
> > can't believe you'd have the audacity to infer that the use of
commercial
> > reeds automatically makes a player inferior.
> >
> > J. Shouryu Nohe
> > Grad Assistant, New Mexico State University
> >
>
>
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