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Author: SecondTry
Date: 2021-12-28 00:42
Improve? Make worse? Do nothing?
I'd care to describe what's happening more than the effect it will have on anyone's individual play.
That flick is breaking reed fibers and slightly reducing the reed's strength. It's not a good or bad thing.
And for some reeds, IMHO, I have found it to improve performance. I believe, under the right conditions, some players would agree that it has helped them too.
In other cases it's made a weak reed of mine weaker, a.k.a. worse.
:)
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Author: Robert N.
Date: 2021-12-28 01:16
I use this as the main method for preparing my reeds, with just a little work with the reed geek. Before discovering this technique I used to do a lot more work with a reed knife or reed geek.
Many people seem to like this technique, but some don't, as tends to be the way of such things.
There are two other similar threads about this kind of flicking technique.
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=489968&t=487069
http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=490039&t=489927
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2021-12-28 02:40
YES! I have been "flicking" like, forever. Yes, I have been told this may shorten the reed's life span. I care not. I do this to take the warps out -- by that I mean the ripples in the tip (top) of the reed, not some major warping of the whole body (I can't ever recall seeing that). I make sure the reed is wet and gently flick, exactly as on the video. I don't swish the reed back & forth first as on the video. I can't play on a "rippled" reed, and do this before each rehearsal/concert. This is the first I've heard of anyone else ever doing this.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2021-12-28 05:03
Tom H wrote:
> I do
> this to take the warps out -- by that I mean the ripples in the
> tip (top) of the reed,... I make sure the reed is wet
> and gently flick, exactly as on the video. I don't swish the
> reed back & forth first as on the video. I can't play on a
> "rippled" reed,
"Swishing" the reed back and forth under your thumb will "iron" the wrinkles out by itself. No one I know plays on rippled reeds - you wet it and press the ripples out by pressing on the tip with your thumb and rotating it or massaging back and forth over the tip area. Flicking basically breaks or significantly weakens the fibers themselves, which results in less resistance, but it isn't needed to straighten the tip.
Karl
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2021-12-28 08:05
kdk-- Thanks. I must remember that when I get to play concerts hopefully in June and ditch my Legere for 7 weeks....I admit the swishing is something I never thought of all these decades.
The Most Advanced Clarinet Book--
tomheimer.ampbk.com/ Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001315, Musicnotes product no. MB0000649.
Boreal Ballad for unaccompanied clarinet-Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001314.
Musicnotes product no. MNO287475
Post Edited (2021-12-28 08:06)
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Author: donald
Date: 2021-12-28 10:30
I think I learnt to flatten the wavy tip of a reed by wetting it and flattening it on the mouthpiece table when I was about 9 years old.
As for the "flicking" technique, we have a colloq expression here in New Zealand that suits it perfectly...
"yeaaaaahhhhhhh, nah"
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Author: Tom H
Date: 2021-12-29 00:00
Yeah you can use any flat surface, the mouthpiece is just handy.
The Most Advanced Clarinet Book--
tomheimer.ampbk.com/ Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001315, Musicnotes product no. MB0000649.
Boreal Ballad for unaccompanied clarinet-Sheet Music Plus item A0.1001314.
Musicnotes product no. MNO287475
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Author: donald
Date: 2021-12-29 05:42
Thanks Tom, I hadn't though of that. Of course!!!! ANY flat surface!!!!!!
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