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Re: Changing Reeds - redux

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-08-11 21:22

Thinking a little more about this, I would suggest unscientifically that reed action is divided into two main qualities: resistance (flexibility) and resilience (springiness, the ease and strength with which it returns to its normal state after being flexed). It seems to me intuitively that harder cane would be more springy, more resilient - would be more insistent on regaining its original (straight) shape. Might this suggest that softer, more flexible cane could be less resilient, might return more sluggishly? If these are properties of the cane and not of the reed profile, they would persist even as you cut the reed thinner to improve overall vibration.

I have no scientific backing for any of this, only intuition and comparisons to other materials in other applications where it seems these concepts are true.

Karl

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