Author: Wes
Date: 2012-09-20 06:28
You are to be commended for trying to make reeds. They have said that after you have made a bushel basket full of them you are probably doing ok.
As far as I can tell, no two people make reeds alike. But on looking at your reeds, I could not expect to be successful with them because they differ in many ways from the reeds I like. I like a shorter scrape, a more defined hump to tip step, a more tapered tip, a better scraped tip, less slippage showing on the sides, narrower near the thread, all extra thread cut off, and that is without even trying them, crowing them, or scraping the back and hump as I like. That is after already deciding on which shaper to use.
If you play in an orchestra, you need to play some long tones very softly and in tune so that you don't interfere with the other players. Today, I played with a group playing a Mozart piano concerto and Fingal's Cave. One had to play long soft high Ds, Cs, and Bs without driving the conductor and the violins out of their gourds. The reed has to be almost perfect for that, which will also work for musical shows.
Please don't feel I'm being critical but that I've offered honest opinions, shich I think you wanted. Good luck!
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