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Re: breaking in reeds

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2018-03-26 02:46

You're confused because so many players give different answers. This is a topic you've been worrying and stressing about for as long as you've been posting here. It does matter to some players, not so much to others. Once more, you're about to get barraged with a lot of responses that will leave you with a completely non-definitive non-consensus. Pick a regimen and follow it for awhile. If it seems to have benefits, keep it. If you find that you seem to be ruining reeds, try something different. By now you've read about a gazillion approaches.

The range of opinions among accomplished players runs from "take a reed out of the box and play on it until it won't play any more" to the meticulous, multi-step plans in several books you can buy online. Ed Palanker (http://eddiesclarinet.com) has information on breaking in reeds and avoiding reed warpage. There are, some posters' insistence to the contrary, no firmly set rules and no one approach to reed preparation that absolutely works or doesn't. Anyone who tells you "you must..." is really only telling you anecdotally what he or she does.

Pick a plan and follow it. See what happens. React to the result.

Karl

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