Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2014-05-21 02:11
ThatPerfectReed wrote:
> In short, a reed transfers the energy you apply to it with
> breath from the tip and sides to the middle and down the reed's
> base. This energy transition needs to happen smoothly
>
> Making small scraps (which at that level of thinness are more
> akin IMHO to gouges) to tiny sections of a reed, I believe,
> take you further away from smooth energy transfer.
I may not have made myself clear, since I agree completely that the reed needs to vibrate smoothly over the length of the vamp. The goal, whether you start from the tip, as Tom does with ATG, or toward the tip, as most other techniques do, is to produce a smoothly contoured vamp (no bumps, no divots or, to use your very appropriate word, gouges). The goal in either approach should be to smooth, not introduce points of sudden change. So, we probably don't disagree at all.
My *only* problem with ATG - and it may be that I'm misusing it - is that, because each stroke starts from the tip, the tip ends up too thin by the time areas farther back along the vamp are smoothed out. I consistently end up even after only a few strokes with tips that are too thin for my comfort. I often think I *must* be misusing it, but I don't know in what way.
I do use ATG when I think the tip itself is unbalanced - it finds any high spots and smooths them without gouges more reliably than I find I can do by eye.
Karl
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