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Author: Ginny
Date: 2000-01-15 06:26
I can convince myself that I just got a splinter in my lower lip from my Vandoren Reed. Does this happen or am I just having a strange adult zit fest? Its not a canker sore.
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Author: Katherine Pincock
Date: 2000-01-15 12:10
It does happen occasionally, but it's not very common. Actually, my...um...favorite trick with reeds is inhaling the minute splinters mid-piece. I've been told the look I get on my face can be quite amusing ;-)
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Author: Dee
Date: 2000-01-15 13:21
The only reeds that I have ever heard of having such problems are the plain, bottom line Ricos.
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Author: Megan
Date: 2000-01-15 19:18
I've had splinters using vandorens too, I also got splinters when I was younger and tried some armstrong reeds. ouch!
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Author: Andy J
Date: 2000-01-17 00:11
This happened to me once when i first started.. i think i was using rico(ick) 2 1/2 at the time.
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Author: Lelia
Date: 2000-01-18 15:15
I had this happen a couple of times back in high school, when I played "plain old Ricos" (the same then as they are now, but I didn't know any better!) outdoors in freezing weather. Moisture expands when it freezes. I think after I put the clarinet back in its case (with no chance to take it indoors immediately), the reed froze. I think the ice split the fibers apart. By the time I took the clarinet out again, the reed had thawed. I didn't suspect what had happened until the reed started disintegrating. Ouch!
Since nobody else has said it, somebody'd better, in case any really innocent beginners are reading this: When a reed splits or splinters, even slightly, toss it! It's a dead reed, it's an ex-reed, it has expired, it has shuffled off this mortal coil, it is extinct, it has croaked, it has gone belly-up, etc. etc. and it will make your clarinet sound like the ghost of a dead pig.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2000-01-18 18:40
Lelia wrote:
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When a reed splits or splinters, even slightly, toss it! It's a dead reed, it's an ex-reed, it has expired, it has shuffled off this mortal coil, it is extinct, it has croaked, it has gone belly-up, etc. etc. and it will make your clarinet sound like the ghost of a dead pig.
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Or, just put it in a cage and call it a parrot.
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Author: belinda
Date: 2000-01-19 00:23
I sometimes get a box of reeds with very course fibers close to the base of the scrape, wich irritate my lips and have in the past given me splinters. If this sounds like your situation I would advise you to lightly sand over the rough fibers to dull the edges giving a smoother more even surface. This will actually help the reed to play better providing you don't over do it.
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