Klarinet Archive - Posting 000375.txt from 2003/05

From: "Resurgere Jones" <resurgereweb@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] More reeds...
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:57:07 -0400

Y'know, Tony, 2 points could be made here --

-- just my luck to run into a Brit who doesn't know a line from Monty
Python.
-- my original comment was not addressed to you. It was addressed to someone
who was asking for advice. I gave it to them. I replied to you in a spirit
of levity, but you seem to be in "bugger off" mode, so have it your way. I
could care less what you do with, about, to or for your reeds.

>From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: Re: [kl] More reeds...
>Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 08:33:41 +0100
>
>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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>
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