Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2011/03

From: RONALD JACKSON <jacksonrm93@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Reed adjustment
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:11:58 -0400


Martin,
I can relate to what you said about spending so much time dealing with reed adjustments. Thanks for the tip about these sythetic reeds you mentioned. I'll try them. Always open to suggestions about reeds.

Ron

Ronald M. Jackson RR#1 Box 26 Falls, PA 18615 (570)388-2215

> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:04:53 -0400
> From: martymarks511@-----.com
> To: klarinet@-----.com
> Subject: Re: [kl] Reed adjustment
>
> I used to spend most of my practice time moistening, adjusting, polishing
> and cursing at reeds. Now, the new synthetic Legere Signature reeds and the
> new Forestone French cut are so good I spend all my practice time
> practicing. Try it. No one will know if you don't tell them.
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Rachel Roessel <gsurosey@-----.com> wrote:
>
> > > The first thing I do when I put a reed on the mouthpiece, if it is a bit
> > > fuzzy, is shine it one a piece of paper.
> >
> > The first thing I do with my new reeds now is to seal them from absorbing
> > too
> > much moisture (by getting them wet and rubbing them; I described that
> > horribly,
> > but my teacher showed me). I have a flat glass resurfacer and round
> > glass stick
> > (the Vandoren thing) that I smooth out the back with. I then check the tip
> > for
> > evenness and adjust as necessary with the stick making sure not to mess
> > with the
> > heart of the reed (adjusting tip and sides of the vibrating parts of the
> > reed).
> > Making small adjustments and playing between them. I'm getting better at
> > breaking in my reeds more slowly so I don't blow them out as quickly as I
> > used
> > to. I found a combination that works well for me(Vandoren V12 #4 with a
> > Vandoren
> > M13 series 13 mouthpiece). It's still hard for me to put down a reed that
> > sounds
> > really good, but knowing it's not broken in well yet, it will die if I keep
> > playing on it that day.
> >
> > This was part of my problem in college. I could never understand why the
> > orchestra conductor was always telling me to play our more because he
> > couldn't
> > really hear me. I couldn't understand why he would say that; after all, I
> > was
> > blowing so hard I felt my face turn red (and I heard myself so I assumed he
> > could, too). Turns out that my mouthpiece and reed combination weren't
> > working
> > well together (I played on reeds as hard as I'm using now (Rue LePic #4),
> > but
> > with a 5RV series 13 mouthpiece, so it was too open for that strength reed
> > to
> > work for me). My current combination works much better and my teacher
> > notices a
> > difference for the better.
> >
> > There's my input on the reed adjusting.
> >
> > Rachel
> >
> >
> >
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