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RE: reed making

Author: nzdonald
Date: 2002-09-28 22:35

William- the odd thing about your posting (well, not just you- i've heard lots of people say this before so don't get personally offended, right?) is this.....
the EASY part of reed making is seasoning blanks etc, then getting them to a state where they are "unfinished reeds" (say like the Zonda "ready to finish"- you can get a sound out of them but they are way way too hard to properly "play")....
the HARD part is getting from there to a finished reed that sounds ok, and from there to a reed that sounds great....
so what i don't understand is this- you are saying you don't want to do the easy bit, but you'll pay more for a "finished reed" and then do the hard part of the job anyway.
hmmmmmmm
i think that what i've never seen written down (there are books etc that i haven't seen, so maybe it is out there somewhere) is a really good explanation/picture etc of "reed architecture (sp? that really looks wrong). There seem to be many two dimensional pictures that are helpful but at the same time suggest things that are not helpful (for example- the "tip region" of the reed, which is defined slightly differently in every source anyway, is suposed to slope away to the end of the reed, but in two dimensional pictures a novice could easily infer that it was suposed to be flat- the the "heart of the reed" sticking up like a hill in the middle....)
a reedmaking book/article illustrated with those neat 3D pictures of reeds that we can do in these modern times, now that would be great.
must rush
have fun all
donald

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