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Author: oboegy
Date: 2006-06-25 05:20
Great question! I'm an amateur, making all of my own reeds for the last three years. I've been keeping a detailed reed journal for the last 15 months, but I had never taken the time until now to tally things up.
Just for reference, I make American style long scrape reeds from gouged cane that the professionals who have supplied it have described as "hard". I keep twenty playable reeds at any time - when I make a new reed I then trash the least playable of the previous twenty, regardless of age. I believe I average about 1 1/2 hours playing time per day.
Over the past 15 months, I've scraped up 85 reed blanks that I've tied. My results have been 56 playable reeds. So that's about 45 reeds annually. Right now, my oldest reed is one that I finished last September 3rd. Of the reeds I've discarded, the one with the longest survival in the field of twenty wound up lasting 11 months. The shortest longevity was about twenty minutes (when I smashed the tip that I had just spent an hour finishing against the rim of the reed soaking glass - @$#%&!) I'll have to sit down tomorrow and figure out what the average playable life has been.
Again, thanks much for asking. I've been meaning to figure this for a while now and would be very interested to know others' comparable experience.
George
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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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