Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2019-11-15 01:16
Caroline Smale wrote:
> How do Legere actually grade their reed strengths, e.g. during
> or after manufacture.
Or maybe just to ask it a different way, how do they produce the differences in strengths?
With cane it seems the reeds are graded after they're cut, based on the natural stiffness of the individual piece of cane (as measured by whatever gauge the manufacturer uses). The actual dimensions of the profile are the same for all strengths.
With a synthesized product, there's no reason why the material's density or stiffness would change from one reed to another, unless they deliberately formulate the plastic differently to produce the variant.
So, my question is, do the strength differences result from varying the thickness and profile, or do they come from varying the stiffness of the plastic itself? Or (least likely, it seems to me) is the plastic itself so inconsistent as to explain the differences (in which case they'd probably grade them after production, like cane)?
Karl
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