Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2013-05-31 18:03
Taras12 wrote:
> Steve...When you quote someone, make sure you quote them in
> context.
>
> While I said they were playable out of the box, most reeds will
> play out of the box. Perhaps, though, I was too abstract and
> you missed the point I made afterward. Let me be really clear.
> To get the best out of those reeds, you need to work at them,
> modify them, break them in...there's no such thing as a free
> lunch. Our culture now wants "plug and play." Synthetic reeds
> give them that.
Tristan, I understood perfectly well the idea you were trying to articulate but what you actually wrote didn't make any sense. You are trying to say that it will almost always be necessary to do some adjustments to maximize that playing quality of a particular reed, a statement that I agree with an am not disputing, but in doing so you have suggested that all cane reeds are at least functional right out of the box. It is this idea that I am disputing.
A significant fraction of reeds, as many as 50% per box in some cases, are not even functional in as-received condition. Some are warped to a degree that they cannot possibly make a seal on the mouthpiece and are completely unplayable without adjustment as a result.
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