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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2001-10-23 00:58
I have a very odd tradition. whenever I've completely exhausted a reed to the point where I have no use for it, or if I accidentally create a great break in it, I burn the tip off so I don't confuse it with any other reeds. I don't like the idea of them ending up in some landfill, so I have a small collection growing of various burnt reeds.
So here's my questions:
1) Why do some of my reeds keep on burning while some don't? They're all the same brand.
2) Does anyone else do anything totally off the wall with their reeds, other than throw them away?
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-10-23 05:03
I use them to:
Build pass-time type things using Elmer's glue
Chew on them when under stress
As toothpicks
As shims
To open small holes in plant pot dirt to put in seeds
As a spatula to smooth spackling over tiny nail holes in walls
As disposable palette mixing sticks for small amounts of oil paints when the urge strikes me
As disposable nail cleaners
I do all kinds of entertaining things with my little pile of discarded reeds!
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Author: beejay
Date: 2001-10-23 15:48
I know someone who paints (oils) with them. They also make good bookmarks, as do the holders
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Author: Dee
Date: 2001-10-23 15:58
Simply grind them up and incorporate into your flower beds or sprinkle on the lawn. Afterall recycling is a "natural" thing to do.
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Author: Lynn
Date: 2001-10-23 17:22
I completely enjoy crumbling them with my hand and throwing them in the trash. After all the pain and agony they've caused me, they diserve it!
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Author: Dan
Date: 2001-10-24 01:57
David, I totally agree with Lynn. Because of all the pain and agony those "little pieces of wood" have caused me, I have switched to the Legere synthetic reed and they sound wonderful. I don't think I could ever go back to natural cane. I'm 54 and my frustration level has vanished into the wind somewhere. Try one and you'll see what I mean. Mine should last me at least a year. Good luck. Dan
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Author: Mike Harrelson
Date: 2001-10-24 03:11
As to the burn rate question. That could relate to how dry or wet each reed may happen to be at burn out time.
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Author: Jessica
Date: 2001-10-24 03:32
I am also in total agreement with Lyn; sometimes I'll even carry one or two around with me so when I get frustrated with something I can take my agressions out on the reed
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Author: Peter
Date: 2001-10-25 23:00
Traditional Native Americans would tell you that the concept of the "Earth Mother" comes from the fact that everything you have, from your clothes to your medicines from your car to your house, from your money to your food and water comes from the natural products which the "Earth Mother" "gives" to us.
When these items are disrespected and wasted, they become extinct. Look at African Blackwood (a catch-all term for three of four woods, including Grenadilla and Ebony,) for instance.
Soon there will be no more African Blackwood clarinets. They will either all be plastic (resonite, ebonite, whatever) or a mixture, like the Greenline. Very sad. But even then, they will still be made out of the earth's natural products, just "mixed" differently.
Enjoy the cane and respect it for as long as you have it. Someday your grandchildren may want to know what it was and you'll be at a loss to paint a proper word-picture to describe it, its texture, how it felt to touch it, etc. Then you may know what I'm talking about today.
That reed doesn't "deserve" your ill will and ire. If anything, it enables you to play your clarinet, which activity you hopefully enjoy. If it, in fact, annoys you to the point of having to take your frustratins out on the reed, perhaps you are partaking in the wrong activity?
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