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Re: Reed making tricks and tips

Author: martinbaxter
Date: 2006-04-22 18:39

I always use a knife to scrape, I have a couple of good ones plus one that I keep for chopping off the tip. I prefer to do this with a knife and a wooden block; I've never had any joy with a reed cutter. I've made my own clarinet reeds too but I don't really think itis worth the trouble; they are more time consuming than you would think.
I find I prefer to leave reeds rather hard then play them for a few days, leave them about a month, soak them and then work on them again. All my most successful reeds have been made that way, but you have to force yourself to make reeds when you don't really need to. I have made a (contra) reed the morning of the final rehearsal for a concert, but I scraped it so much to make it playable that it only just lasted out the concert. NOT a good technique!
Martin

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