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RE: Pure Curiosity about Reeds

Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2000-11-28 00:32

I use Alexander Superial Classic 3.5 for my Greg Smith Mp/Selmer 10SII.

As to reed thickness, I read two very interesting interviews with two Japanese
professionals in a magazine for wood and brass winds.

1.With a clarinettist Fujii: He met with Karl Leister before a concert, and found he
tried a thin German reed, looking like 3, with a mouthpiece without strings. It
sounded queer. But after he set strings around, he sounded that Leister tone.
Fujii was so impressed to find such a world famous clarinettist used such thin
reed that next day he recommended his own students to use 3 reeds.
2.With a younger Japanese clarinettist who came back from studying in Germany:
The famous German professor found his 4-thick reed and told 'This is not a reed
but just a plate of timbre. Use 2.5. Then the Japanese student continued to use
2.5 reeds during stay in Germany. Now as a professional, he steps up
the reed thickness but only to 3 or 3.5.
I think this tells the important thing is whether you can control reed satisfactorily
and that the thickness itself does not mean anything.

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