Author: Aussie Nick
Date: 2002-04-01 08:06
Why is it that of all the players I know, I have the hardest time with reeds. Sure I am fussy, but so's everyone. I used to play Vandoren (blue box) 4's, Daniels 4's and maybe the odd Grand Concert or something, and then one of the teachers at uni told my teacher that my reeds are too hard and its making the articulation not as crisp as it could be...so over the past few weeks I've been gradually adjusting down to 3.5's . Now when I go back and try to play my old reeds, its close to impossible, but its just so hard to find the right reed because I think I am in the stage where the 4's are too hard, and most of the 3.5's are too soft.
It's really hard to find really nice ones. I've been trying to focus primarily on my technical work but unfortunately I'm the type of person that gets distracted easily, therefore if I'm trying to practice scales or studies, and I'm not happy with the tone the reed is giving me, I'll fuss around for half an hour until I find something nice. I'm also spending a fortune on new reeds all the time. By the way, I play on a Viotto B3 mouthpiece if that helps. My teacher tells me all the time to stop being concerned about my sound because he is mroe than happy with it but thats because when he hears me perform, I always have a really nice performance reed and I also try and play a good reed in the lessons, but he doesn't hear how bad it can sound (to me anyway) the rest of the time.
I hope I am making sense here and I'd appreciate any advice offered.
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