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 Re: Reed brands and models
Author: ThatPerfectReed 
Date:   2014-04-14 21:01

I guess there's more to a reed's playing strength than its physical resistance test when dry. Perhaps this test is itself just a surrogate, subject to all the limitations that arise when using a surrogate, for playing strength, if not also the single best (or most efficient: i.e. $) test available to date. Hosts of variability in cane not measured in such a test, not to mention differing ambient weather where the reed is used, different playing conditions, and differences in saliva, etc. all play a role I suspect.

"I tried to correlate dip time and temperature vs stiffness with my own deflection/force rig."

I guess the inconsistency you report in characteristics, not the least of which being strength, in new Legere's of a model and strength, would lead one to believe that, paradoxically enough, consistent boil times would lead to inconsistent results given the initial inconsistency of the product you have reported.

Your desire to devise and publish a consistent reed preparation methodology, even within model is a noble cause. I would be thrilled to have some light shed on how consistency in play can be improved. But this may be difficult to do even if the base product were more consistent. It seems to me that this holy grail remains as elusive as predicting the exact weather 3 days in advance. There's just too many factors, some of which not fully known or measureable, at least yet, though we no much more than we did 100 years ago.

Perhaps we can take solace in how far synthetics have come, and hope market demand will motivate researchers to improve on such products even further.
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