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Re: Stronger cane makes better reed?

Author: L. Omar Henderson
Date: 2007-09-05 17:54

Bob, the only question is how you define density - not weight/unit mass? My point is that you can indeed measure vibrational characteristics of the reed - sans the obvious variables of the players lips and pressure exerted. I suggested in another post in the dark mists of time that both back and forth and tangential movement could be used to grade reed vibrational movement on some arbitrary scale (could be a new scale or transmuted to our numerical or alphabetical scale) if the same force was equally applied to a number of individual reeds e.g. with a piezo electric clamp and CCD camera detection in two planes with computer algorithm computation.
L. Omar Henderson
www.doctorsprod.com

P.S. This is on one of the many shelves of wonderful ideas that are rejected by industry because better grading would hurt their bottom line.

Post Edited (2007-09-06 01:01)

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