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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-06-25 02:32
" . . . (not counting reject reeds if make your own) . . ."
Does that mean we can't count reject reeds that we buy from someone else?
In my experience, at least, not every reed one purchases, even from skillful reedmakers, is good.
I honestly don't know how many I "use up" over a year's time. I have a lot of reeds that are in various stages of not-quite-dead -- some of them acquired as long as a year ago. Some reeds are like the Energizer Bunny (they keep going, and going and . . . ). Most of them aren't. What I REALLY hate is a reed that flattens itself out after one hard rehearsal or concert. I had one that did that on me this Spring -- bummer.
More typically, I go through a couple a week -- a week with a long rehearsal, a concert, and something between 1 1/2 to 3 hours of practice each day, and a lesson -- can't forget the lesson reed! That would come out to a little over 100 per year, it seems. But I don't think I have that many reed carcasses in my litttle boxes, so maybe it's less than that, or there are fallow periods when I don't go through them quite so quickly.
But I also rotate my reeds, so I may have 10 or twelve in various stages of playability at any given time. And I try to use the almost dead ones that were never anything to write home about for my own practice, and save the good ones for the ears of someone besides my dog and my husband.
Susan (who just today ruined a perfectly playable reed, trying to make it more responsive)
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vboboe |
2006-06-24 23:22 |
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ohsuzan |
2006-06-25 02:32 |
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oboegy |
2006-06-25 05:20 |
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vboboe |
2006-06-25 19:36 |
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oboist |
2006-06-25 20:48 |
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d-oboe |
2006-06-26 00:15 |
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