Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-01-18 20:42
(satire)
First off, apologies. My internet connection's bad today. That said, I don't know what the fuss is about. My first teacher taught me how to make every reed in a box perfect and last 6 months, even for the fussiest of player. I'm on my 3rd box of reeds since picking up the clarinet 40 years ago.
Anyway le$ me sh#are w^8h you his fo##proo@ approa@! befo** I loos# my internet con!!cti$#:
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You're welcome.
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Ok.. that was meant as a funny. This isn't. The secret to reeds, I think, is balance, and that's a deliberate double entendre. In my opinion, without question there are techniques out there, like the ATG method that will allow more of your reeds to be playable.
But there's a second kind of balance that requires the removal of no cane, and rather it resides in your head. And that balance accepts that reeds are imperfect, highly dynamic (usually downhill) and that a good player must know "when to hold them and when to fold them," pardon the card playing analogy.
Constant adjustment can take from your most precious asset: time. Time to let technique overcome some of a reed's shortcomings. Conversely, acceptance of reed mediocrity when a little sanding can makes worlds of difference is no good either. And sure, all brands and boxes within brands aren't equal.
As a young player I was a reed perfectionist in part because I had lack of mental concept of what level of acceptability was ok in reeds, seeking to compensate for my playing shortcomings. Here's where private lessons, where my teacher player my setup with such grace forced me to accept that the thing needing most rebalancing at the time was me.
Post Edited (2022-01-18 20:44)
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