Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 2003/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] More reeds...
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 06:34:36 -0400

There's rubbing them with grease from the side of your noise - a Brymer
idea, I think.
Olive oli is a bad idea, as it seems to make the surface harder.
Roger S.

In message <20030519.083341.59@-----.org writes:
> On Mon, 19 May 2003 02:30:58 +0000, resurgereweb@-----.com said:
>
> > > From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
> > >
> > > On Sat, 17 May 2003 11:38:11 +0000, resurgereweb@-----.com said:
> > >
> > > > ...you *do* rotate through at least 4 reeds, right?...
> > >
> > > No, I don't.
> > >
> > > Should I?
> >
> > 'zup to you.
>
> Yeah, that's right.
>
> > We don't morally censure... :-)
>
> I'll assume that the 'we' here is, you and the mouse in your pocket.
> The attitude can get pretty close to moral censure in some people.
>
> My advice to clarinet players is to try the suggestions, including the
> ones you make up for yourselves -- and let's face it, most of the ones
> out there are pretty obvious -- but then, to decide which of them works
> for you on a basis that is independent of the authority, or supposed
> authority, of the person making the suggestion.
>
> That it works nowadays for Yo-yo Meyer-Leister, or used to work in the
> past for Giggly-Bonny Marcellus -- never mind about whether it'll work
> in the future for resurgereweb or his mouse -- doesn't mean it'll work
> for you.
>
> Indeed, you could argue that what's important about the process of
> trying different procedures doesn't really lie in the details of what
> you do about reeds as an end result of that process. Despite what some
> people may say, *no* simple procedure is guaranteed to produce excellent
> results.
>
> It's rather that undertaking the process forces you to assess what a
> reed's 'working' really means to you. A lot of people fail just by not
> knowing that, in detail. They're the sort of people who play on
> 'planks' in a resonant acoustic, for example.
>
> On a lighter note, having said that most of the suggestions out there
> are pretty obvious, I've tried, when I was younger:
>
> Rubbing them with corn oil (resists those saliva deposits), and
>
> Boiling them in milk (for that creamy sound)
>
> ...just as a small sample.
>
> Anyone got anything *really* original?
>
> Tony
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