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Re: reed strength and sound quality

Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2011-01-04 15:13

>>The argument against hard reeds is aimed at people who overdo it. >>

Yeah, I think a lot of that starts among young beginning and intermediate players in school, where they more or less challenge each other to move up to higher reed strengths. Kids often equate words such as higher, stiffer and stronger with better.

Back in 1959 or so, a boy who sat next to me in grammar school band picked up one of my reeds when class ended and we were putting our instruments away. He looked at the back and said, mockingly, something along the lines of, "Two-and-a-half? You're still playing this little Brownie Scout reed?!" Pressuring me usually backfires and did this time, although I didn't quite have the nerve to taunt him with confusing a stiff reed with part of his anatomy....

Lelia
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