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Re: Reed Making

Author: SecondTry
Date: 2020-10-23 17:08

I've wondered if people who make reeds from scratch achieve better success than buying them because the skills they've acquired in SHAPING a blank transfer over to the art of, once produced, ADJUSTING reeds for player taste/setup and variances in cane strength between reeds, or even with a single reed.

Of course the ability to source quality cane is another factor.

While we each have priorities in what aspects of clarinet play occupy our time, assuming the cane of some better recognized brands is acceptable, it would seem to me that time is best spent on paying manufacturers to shape blanks, as they can I suspect do it (at least today, if not 60+ years ago) with better precision than home tools and abilities, and that we rather invest time in learning and applying adjustment techniques for player/setup and intra-reed variances.

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