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At last-a use for those old reeds

Author: elmo lewis
Date: 2009-12-20 16:40

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Re: At last-a use for those old reeds

Author: ShazamaPajama
Date: 2009-12-21 05:38

lol thats really cool.

2 years ago i didnt have a car so i rode a fixed gear bike around town. 25+ miles a day for a year... i was in the best shape of my life.

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Re: At last-a use for those old reeds

Author: FrankM
Date: 2009-12-21 12:56

Years ago I had a parrot named Sinbad....I discovered one day that he loved to chew on old reeds. When he got done, there was nothing but splinters left and he made an excellent reed disposal system...of course, he couldn't distinguish between old and new so I had to hide new reeds from him.....and I doubt few animals could open a box of new reeds quicker than a parrot!

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Re: At last-a use for those old reeds

Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-12-21 15:16

Old reeds make great barn fires, small ones of course. One summer, when I was teaching at the Eastern Music Festival in NC, one of the reed companies sent me boxes of their new reed and I got them to send me a box for all of the students and the other two orchestra members. I really don't remember the company, it was about 25 years ago, but no one was able to play them successfully so we had a "reed" burning in the courtyard. What a sight, over a hundred bad clarinet reeds burning in the shape of a tent. Beautiful sight. Of course we did a reed dance around the burning reeds. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com

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Re: At last-a use for those old reeds

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2009-12-21 15:25

Look out Eddie. The barn owners will be after you.

It's a good thing you didn't have any Vibrator reeds in your pile. They were dry as a bone and infested with dry rot, so they would have gone up with a whoosh and burnt off your eyebrows.

Ken Shaw

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Re: At last-a use for those old reeds

Author: justme
Date: 2009-12-21 16:30

Reed Burning?

Ok, I'm going to have to post here what I did on the Oboe Board...

I'm sure that this will apply to clarinet reeds as well.

This bad reed wouldn't even burn properly!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOkCbpPwms4

Just Me

http://woodwindforum.ning.com/

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Re: At last-a use for those old reeds

Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2009-12-21 23:49

I actually saw one of those a couple of weeks ago, locked up outside Stadium Hardware Store in Ann Arbor, MI.

But there are lots of wierd driving machines here...

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