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do you adjust the reeds of your students?

Author: Trevor M
Date: 2012-02-03 09:18

I've been impressed by the Ridenour reed system's ability to turn some bad and mediocre reeds into fairly playable ones. Thinking it would be a boon to some of my students, I've been cautiously trying to adjust some of their reeds in lessons- results: inconclusive. Some think there's an improvement, others seem to detect no change.

It's really hard to diagnose a reed without playing it. I perform the whole operation based on questionable feedback, almost certainly erring on the side of too little adjustment because I hate to spoil the few reeds they have.

So do y'all try to work on your students' reeds? Do you *play* your students' reeds? (With some of these kids, my immune system gives a little shiver at the thought.)

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