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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-05-12 22:11
Well, that's what I experienced in the past - I booed, my clarinet hissed. Hissed out of the register hole, out from under the C5 hole, out from under various other pads. It sounded as if there wasn't enough clearance when the pads were open. The pinch Bb was especially bad.
In contrast, my outdoors horn sounded clear like a bell.
So I did the usual treatment like pipe-cleaning the register pipe, search for lint nests etc etc - no soap, still a stuffy hissy clarinet. Frustrated I began saddlin up, and when I undid my reed I thought "hey this is the last thing I haven't looked at." Took a fresh reed, clamped on and got going. No more hiss, clear as a crystal, even the notorious throat Bb. I should mention that the old reed did just fine outdoors last Saturday...
Moral of the story: some instruments are pickier than others. Sometimes the remedy is as simple as taking a fresh reed. Doh!
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Ben
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Author: 78s2CD
Date: 2009-05-13 02:18
Have you tried resurfacing the back of the reed to make sure it's flat? On my bass, especially, a little leakage under the reed can make it go south in a few minutes playing.
Regards,
Jim Lockwood
Rio Rico AZ
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-05-13 07:54
I think the reed was simply tired. Heck, it's six weeks old and has more than 40 or 50 hours of ff playing on its bark.
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Ben
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Author: D Dow
Date: 2009-05-15 13:42
Reed are no different than tires....rotation is sometimes a great benefit. Never play on the same reed day in day out..rather try using 2 reeds during daily practice. This also is good for the embouchure as well.
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-05-15 13:59
D Dow wrote:
> Reed are no different than tires....rotation is sometimes a great benefit.
Ain't rotation the very purpose of a tyre? ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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Ben
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Author: oliver sudden
Date: 2009-05-15 14:27
tictactux wrote:
> D Dow wrote:
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> > Reed are no different than tires....rotation is sometimes a
> great benefit.
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> Ain't rotation the very purpose of a tyre?
>
Boo! Hiss!
(I'm just jealous of course.)
But yes, rotation. Do it.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2009-05-15 17:24
Ah yes, DD & ttt, "counter-rotation" is good too ! Having spent a few hours/days ? working up a Getzen plastic [F B !] bass cl, on trying it out, I found considerable improvement using different reeds with its mp [lightly refaced by me], and even more by using my trusty glass [GG] mp, partic. as related to cleaning-up/easing the clarion with just a single register hole/key. All in all, I'm quite pleased and more experienced. Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2009-05-15 17:34
IME one can rotate a dead reed any way one wants, it continues to be a dead reed.
And visual inspection doesn't really work - I'll show you my current favourite later this evening...
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Ben
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Author: stevensfo
Date: 2009-05-15 18:07
-- "IME one can rotate a dead reed any way one wants, it continues to be a dead reed. " --
If John Cleese had been a clarinetist, imagine what the Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch may have become!
Steve
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2009-05-16 18:23
In a sense, it is a bit frustrating that our sound depends so heavily on an object so inconsistent. Brass players are so lucky.
Speaking of rotation, I need to rotate my car tires.
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Ryder Naymik
San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"
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Author: oliver sudden
Date: 2009-05-16 20:22
> In a sense, it is a bit frustrating that our sound depends so
> heavily on an object so inconsistent. Brass players are so
> lucky.
Lips are pretty inconsistent too, and good luck rotating them...
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