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Re: Dark reeds?

Author: d-oboe
Date: 2007-11-29 18:11

The point I'm trying to make is that, while these metaphorical things provide excellent imagery, they are not objective factual things. When we talk about reeds, we only have the option to speak factually. They aren't metaphorical concepts...they are pieces of vibrating plant!
The reason I say this is that too many teachers stay only in the metaphors and the imagery, and leave the technical knowledge to somehow be discovered.
So when someone sets out to make a "dark" reed...they are probably going to get extremely frustrated in the process. Why? It isn't a characteristic of vibration. Vibrations don't have colors - they have frequencies.

A good reed will have a balance between all the frequencies of vibration. The consensus among most reed authorities is that the reed should crow in octaves without any additional pitches. (the exact pitch of the crow is debatable though...some are firm on C, some are less fussy)

Whatever we believe is fine - but when we go to teach our craft to another, younger student...we have to really question ourselves. If the student has no concrete grasp of how things REALLY work, they will not be able to teach it to someone else - a phenomenon all too common in the music field these days.

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