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Re: Reeds historically

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-08-01 02:33

Dave, I can't really argue against anything you write. I can reach the same conjectural conclusions. But I have no way to validate those conjectures - they've formed in the context of modern mass-produced reeds and all the benefits and problems they bring - even for someone skilled at improving them.

I still would like to know if there is known primary source testimony about those questions I asked in my original post. For the purpose of this line of thought, I want deliberately to avoid "I imagine," "I'm sure," "I suspect," etc....

If the historic testimony isn't available, so be it. We'll just have to go on with our guesses - more or less educated by our own experiences and those of our contemporaries. It was a whimsical thought, though, that reed players 200 years ago may have had their own approaches to reeds - what those players depended on and didn't. We have the old instruments and mouthpieces. But without reeds those are silent. What were the sound generators attached to them actually like?

Karl

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