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Re: Measuring Reeds

Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2017-07-07 08:01

I wonder whether the ridiculously expensive device that shmuelyosef pointed to above would actually do what's wanted. At least two parameters need to be mapped - contour and transparency. The device cited can capture the contour but the light source has to shine through the reed rather than bounce off it to capture the fiber variations. Maybe it can do that too? Or perhaps combining contour measurements with multiple stiffness measurements made with a pressure sensor could capture the characteristics of an individual reed. But does looking at a reed reveal how good the cane is?

As an aside, when I went to Clarinet Fest at Cal State Northridge I took a tour of the Rico factory and watched reeds being made. The hardness of each reed was measured by a pressure gauge/transducer pushing against one spot on the reed. Depending on the reading, the reed was sorted into the appropriate pile, e.g., 2; 2.5, 3, etc. Illustrated at 1:57 in this Rico video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwOUEsdpuI0 (In the factory the stiffness was measured automatically rather than with human intervention as seen in the video)

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