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Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-04-14 17:31
I am guessing that somewhere the conversation took a turn because it was never said, only illustrated in a link to a video, that strength testing was in fact a physical test of the reeds ability to, once finished, resist bending.
....at least for Vandoren.
Maybe I'm wrong.
That said, I'm unaware of which of the two methods you describe Stan for measuring such resistance is used: be it flexing the reed a fixed distance and measuring the force required to that that, or applying a fixed amount of resistance to the reed and measuring how mich it has moved.
But the video, I posted
http://youtu.be/E-at2kp5WnI?t=1m20s
positioned at 1 minute 20 seconds, where creating the reed begins, shows a machine at 2:14 that tests physical resistance. It may just be a graphical representation of what goes on, but it suggests physical resistance testing of the former type described above.
I agree that more goes into reed strength, all cut virtually identically (1/100 mm--again, at least at Vandoren) than cane density alone, and that such density is just a surrogate, albeit a good one, for strength. And like all surrogates, (using your shoe example) it is not as effective as testing the desired trait (strength--or in your case height).
The puff of air physical test though sounds promising. Perhaps I should dig out dad's (a retired eye doctor) old glaucoma testing machine, with its puff of air, and "Rube Goldberg" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_goldberg such a device!
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