Klarinet Archive - Posting 000372.txt from 2003/05

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: reeds/cases, rotating
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:33:48 -0400

All of the private teachers I have had have made such a huge deal out of
rotating reeds. It has driven me batty. I would get a box and rotate all of
them and some would never EVER play good and others were wonderful from the
first second. Then I started to pretend to rotate my reeds when I would just
go through the box, pick the ones that play easily and play on those. I
don't think it takes an expert to figure this out, because I am certainly
not one. I think it may take a bit of a rebel to though because you are
doing just the thing your teacher tells you not to do. I do have a fancy
reed case though:)

I have a good question too. Does anyone actually buy the Vandoren "hand
select" reeds? I noticed they cost 10 dollars more. Are these supposed to be
hand picked? How on earth do they select these?

BTW, Nancy, your post was nicely said! I printed your post and some other
posts and I am going to give them to my ex-private teacher who yelled at me
for using the same reed two lessons in a row. He made me draw little
pictures on my reeds with markers:-/

-Rebecca

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