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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2014-12-18 23:29
By the feel of the cane when I scrape or sand (I always start out with reeds that are a bit too hard and work them down in certain areas to make them respond better), and by a sort of graininess or lack of center to the sound. Soft cane is easy to gouge and dig into when scraping with a knife (even a really good sharp one), while dense cane will scrape evenly.
A reed I've found to work surprising well on bass clarinet (after 15+ years of aging) is the Frederick Hemke tenor sax reed, which used very thin but dense cane. I recall them being pretty bad players when new, but now I get good results (talking about #5 strength Hemkes to correspond roughly to #4 Vandorens).
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GBK |
2014-12-18 20:51 |
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tictactux |
2014-12-18 21:53 |
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Ken Shaw |
2014-12-18 22:56 |
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David Spiegelthal |
2014-12-18 22:59 |
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cxgreen48 |
2014-12-18 23:16 |
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David Spiegelthal |
2014-12-18 23:29 |
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Ken Shaw |
2014-12-19 07:53 |
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Lelia Loban |
2014-12-19 19:52 |
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William |
2014-12-19 20:16 |
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cxgreen48 |
2014-12-19 21:15 |
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David Spiegelthal |
2014-12-21 17:43 |
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cxgreen48 |
2014-12-22 01:52 |
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Lelia Loban |
2014-12-22 17:11 |
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TomS |
2014-12-23 23:00 |
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Johnny Galaga |
2014-12-27 04:18 |
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Lelia Loban |
2014-12-28 22:23 |
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WhitePlainsDave |
2014-12-28 23:22 |
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