Klarinet Archive - Posting 000062.txt from 2004/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] reeds
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 23:19:32 -0500

At 11:36 AM 12/3/2004 -0500, Curtis Bennett wrote:
>Can someone here tell me why they make a 5 strength clarinet reed?
>Does anyone actually play such a thing?
>
>I bought a Mitchell Lurie (or was it a Vandoren?) 5 once just as a
>novelty, and it was like trying to blow through tree bark.
>
>Really, what is the point?

If your mouthpiece has a close enough and long enough facing, it may even
REQUIRE such a reed. But mouthpieces with such facings are not all that
common. Also, some people use them essentially as blanks to shave down
into actual usable reeds. And I suspect that a few insecure people carry
around softer reeds in boxes marked "5" so it looks to others like they
have chops of steel. ;-)

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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