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Re: Reed Making is Performance, not Preparation

Author: oboi
Date: 2015-04-26 03:16

Not that I have many long lapses in reedmaking, but I find it most frustrating when I've ignored my reeds for a long time and have to relearn each of their tendencies. That involves a lot of testing and scraping to restablish the current state of my arsenal. This can waste a lot of time, as instead of taking a known reed and using it for a specific purpose (this one is for the performance, this one is for high notes, this one is out of tune but good for sightreading, etc...), I end up swapping and testing endlessly instead of going about doing what I intended to do (which is practice).

I don't forget how to scrape, I forget how to approach each particular reed (each requiring its own unique knife finessing).

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