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Re: "stuff" in the sound

Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2010-07-06 00:25

It also depends what you mean by "stuff".
One of these replies mentioned avoiding any bump or hump: I fully concur with this so much that I never do windows.... many other debates on this.

But there is also some relationship between the density of the cane, the length of the tip and the the type of blend. If one of my reeds is too buzzy, often I "back-up" the blend and chop the tip.

Often, removing bumps AND thinning the sides (from back of rails to front of heart) will do 3 things: make the reed more responsive (less than working blend), darken the tone, get rid of fuzz.

I also agree with the replies that said:
1. "spine" al the way to the tip
2. it is often (not always) more of a shadow than a visible thickness
3. that shadow is the by-product of knife movement rarely directly scraping the center meridian.

Check-out the hand-drawings on my web-site. My methods can be used with American scrape, except you'll want to keep the heart thicker than what I indicate.

Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music

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