Author: SecondTry
Date: 2023-09-14 18:34
There's contention Fuzzy because you live up to your "Fuzzz" handle, not the first time mind you, obfuscating threads with irrelevancies.
You write:
"It isn't "normal" for a player to play a Legere on Sundays, a Vandoren on Mondays, a Rico on Tuesdays, etc. as part of a standard weekly routine."
Again, this never came up. It seems to me you become, to use your words, "perplexed," by what you imagine to be the case that isn't.
While nobody forces me to read your posts, doing so can be frustrating because of this.
For what it's worth, precisely so as to maximize my reed choices, I have multiple models of Vandoren's, Pilgerstofers, Leuthners, in my active set of reeds, but that's just me, and I'll agree it's likely more the exception than rule to how players approach reed rotation.
Another form of grace, as you sight, is carefully reading posts and not "going off into the weeks with them."
"we've become dissatisfied with our current reed and start looking for different ones. Yes, sometimes it take a few months."
Not to be pedantic but to raise what may actually be a relevant point here, we don't become dissatisfied with our current reed (as in a single piece of cane) and start searching other brands. Perhaps we became dissatisfied with a particular make and strength across numerous reeds. I'll bet that's what you meant, but again, the OP has truly left us questioning whether her teacher left her with a single reed of a particular brand or a bunch of them.
A student who can't find a working reed in but, maybe, one brand, worse, one individual reed from that brand, needs, in my opinion, on sight evaluation of their setup, an examination of the strength of reed they're using, a basic lesson in reed adjustment, and realistic expectation of what is an acceptable level of tolerance in reed imperfection.
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