Klarinet Archive - Posting 000589.txt from 2004/11

From: "Larisa Duffy and David Dow" <duffyl@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] HOW TO handle new REEDS?
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:21:53 -0500

I am at odds with the advice I just read on the Davie cane site...

I have never had trouble with reeds in my career...

Guy Desplus advised his students never to"rub or buff reeds with the oils
from the hands or with the fingers.."

One thing is for sure, I never rub the vamp and Davie Cane says to!

I find this to be totally against allowing the reed to play the way it
naturally was formed....if a reed is hard naturally you are going to remove
some wood from it....

Already I have immediate distrust and plainly find the advice against my own
way of getting reeds to work...

Currently I get about 75- 80 percent of Vandorens to work using my own
methods which means either using
a Cordier reed clipper or a Herder reed knife...alot of reed adjustment is
simply balancing the reed where some wood is too thick...and this includes
the rails.

David Dow
Symphony NB

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