Author: kdk
Date: 2009-11-13 16:39
I wonder how many players of the generation who began their professional careers before 1950 or 1960 (who, with the end of Stanley Drucker's NYP tenure, are now almost all either retired or deceased) actually taught or practiced structured ways of preparing reeds. The only players I've had any close exposure to, mostly from the Curtis lineage taught by McLane, Bonade or their predecessors, seem not to have had any particular method other than to avoid water-logging a new reed (which can happen within minutes of steady playing). Studying with Gigliotti for several years (I was a slow learner), I never had any hint that he did anything except baby new reeds for a few days and adjust balance as they changed from day to day. He was not above taking out a new reed for a performance, either, if nothing he already had felt good. I'm not familiar with anything Bonade wrote about a break-in regimen, although he had some things to say in print about reed adjustment and balance. Of course, Bonade, Gigliotti, Wright, and Galper don't comprise their entire generation of clarinet players. Maybe without the Internet with its BBs and listserves, no one knew what anyone else was doing and players tended to follow their own inclinations without the same degree of sharing we have available today.
Just something your post brought to mind, David.
Karl
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