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Author: bawa
Date: 2007-06-13 06:24
I am wondering if it is OK to stop and change reeds in an exam (internal) if it "dies" on you, as in Chris P's post. I am thinking in terms of what a violinist would do if a string broke.
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Author: William
Date: 2007-06-13 14:23
I think it should be OK to switch reeds as well as adjust for tuning, swabbing, or whatever it takes to make your "exam" as perfect as possible. However, I would recommend doing your pre-exam "reeding" and make certain you have one that is healthy enough to live through the ordeal. Play from your heart and make your clarinet sing--but above all, have fun.
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Author: bawa
Date: 2007-06-14 05:47
Thank you William: it happened the day before yesterday to my daughter at an exam cum recital. She was playing Weber's Grand Duo mvt. 2 & 3. She had a "perfect" reed as checked the day before. Half an hour before the exam she put the clarinet together and did some warm-up exercises: reed still perfect. Towards the end of 2nd mvmt it started to give and and after a few bars into the 3rd, it just died.
There was a large changes in humidity everyday (hot and sunny morning, followed by thunderstorms in the evening).
Her own teacher is on leave and the substitute teacher is very inexperienced and was unable to say anything even after the exam.
This is the first time that something like this has happened to her during a performance. I was wondering if it would have been alright to stop and change the reed (much like a string player changing a broken string).
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Author: BobD
Date: 2007-06-14 10:15
If you were taking an automobile driving test and your brakes failed would you continue to drive?
Bob Draznik
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Author: musiciandave
Date: 2007-06-14 16:27
There was a ClarFest MasterClass that Larry Combs gave where when the student playing went to change her reed, he said
"it isn't the reed"
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2007-06-14 18:09
This would be a good little ad for Legere reeds. Cause legere's work the same, every time. Look into 'em! You might find you like them!
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: jane84
Date: 2007-06-14 19:17
"There was a ClarFest MasterClass that Larry Combs gave where when the student playing went to change her reed, he said
"it isn't the reed" "
He actually said that, in public, to another person? Wow...how did she react?
-jane
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Author: William
Date: 2007-06-14 20:22
I could imagine the legendary CSO oboist Ray Still saying something like that--in fact, here in Madison at a clinic, he did. But never "Mr Nice Guy" and clarinetist extrodinarire, Larry Combs.........too bad for the student.
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Author: bawa
Date: 2007-06-15 07:10
Thanks for your replies.
After talking to a few other teachers of other instruments, I think next time (and hoping that this never happens again, because until now, it had never happened in the 7 years she has been playing!); she will change the reed, and stop to do so if necessary!
It was a Rue Lepic 56 3.5, btw.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2007-06-15 11:57
Although it seems reasonable to me that a student should change a dead reed during an exam, the student also needs to make sure, later, that the reed is "not just merely dead, but really most sincerely dead," before giving it the wall-test. My reeds used to die on me during seat jumps, all the time. Miraculously, these reeds revived later and played just fine.
I'm guessing that, if Combs really told a student, in front of everybody else, "It isn't the reed," he was probably right.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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