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Author: vin
Date: 2015-02-17 20:19
Harold Wright used to take the dirt off his shoe and rub it into reeds to "help them seal," or something. Whatever works.
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-02-17 20:42
"Don't put that reed in your mouth- you don't know where it's been."
Stan in Orlando
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Author: yaseungkim
Date: 2015-02-17 21:25
Just wash it off with Ajax or lysol if you like the reed, if marginal, donate it to the nearest compost.
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Author: yaseungkim
Date: 2015-02-17 23:50
Bill28099: "How about in front of an audience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxNH_OYYogc
A great teacher gives you answers to questions
you don't even know you should ask."
1. I have not finished watching the youtube video link you provided, but that's oboe, not clarinet... I feel your pain if you play oboe.
2. My son's former clarinet teacher always said, you must always have your backup reed with you at all times at your performances. This is true for all reed instrument players to include clarinet, oboe, bassoon, sax, etc...
3. I remember from an old combat scene between a samurai and a korean moosa, during the fight, one of the combatant's sword broke half, and the other guy did not take advantage of the one who had his sword broke in half, and tells him to come back with his backup sword and finish the fight another day instead of killing him right there...
The guy that had his sword broke says, "I don't need to come back another day, you've won the fight as I should've had better control over my sword so it would not have failed on me"
Your equipment (reed in this case) is like your sword for those who go to combat, you must have a backup at all times, and you must have positive control over your equipment. *most samurais always carry multiple swords* if you ever pay attention to how they dress.
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Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-02-18 00:00
If the comedian Andy Kaufman was still alive, and played clarinet, no doubt would he at one point find himself on stage playing next to something that in secret fact wasn't, but resembled to the audience horse manure, so that he could "accidently" drop his reed in that, pick it out, and play it.
Post Edited (2015-02-18 00:01)
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Author: JEG ★2017
Date: 2015-02-18 03:46
Two stories -
When I was in Tanglewood 40 years ago I accidentally dropped my best bass clarinet reed on the floor of a rehearsal shed during an orchestra rehearsal. The reed bounced once and then dropped between the floorboards and landed somewhere underneath the building, which was elevated above the ground. Needless to say, I didn't go after it, but every time I go to Tanglewood and walk past that shed I think about the reed. I'm sure it has decomposed (no pun intended) by now. But maybe in that case the 5-second rule might have applied.
A few years ago the oboist in a woodwind trio I was playing in got frustrated with his reed and threw it across the room. After he calmed down he went and picked up the reed. When he tried it again he decided that it played better, and I think he used it in the performance we were rehearsing for.
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Author: Tony F
Date: 2015-02-18 03:51
Many years back an oboist told me of not only dropping his reed just as a piece was starting, but then treading on it while trying to find it.
Tony F.
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2015-02-18 04:49
If the tip is not chipped or cracked beyond playability I see no reason not to use the reed.
...........Paul Aviles
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Author: yaseungkim
Date: 2015-02-18 06:58
I was saying to my son, don't you feel glad your not an oboe player.
He says why, I told him, the oboe player next to you in the orchestra always has her elbow up and looks very tiring. My son says, oh yeah...
I didn't know the reed can fly out while playing your oboe until I was watching the amazon series "mozart in the jungle" All musician wanna be high school students should watch that, I recommend.
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Author: maxopf
Date: 2015-02-18 07:09
Mozart in the Jungle is sort of ridiculous as far as realism goes - I don't think anyone at the top-level-orchestra level would drop their oboe like that. It's a pretty amusing show though, once you get beyond the crazy pilot episode.
During a lesson not that long ago I ended up playing on a particularly bad reed. After I made some noise about it, my teacher took it from me and tried adjusting it (she seemed doubtful that it was truly an unplayable reed), but it still didn't feel right. She adjusted it once more, with no success. Finally she said "let me try it." She put it on her mouthpiece, played one open G, took the reed off the mouthpiece and chucked it across the room, exclaiming "this is terrible!" or something to that effect.
Post Edited (2015-02-18 07:12)
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Author: fskelley
Date: 2015-02-18 12:59
Obviously there is an opportunity here for someone with a bit of magician sleight of hand skill to pretend to do something truly disgusting with a reed and then continue playing on it. In a formal concert setting. Be careful not to mix it up and actually use the bad reed.
In fact, I'm sure somebody has some good video of it. Let's see it.
If you get in trouble with this, I accept no responsibility.
Stan in Orlando
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Post Edited (2015-02-18 13:00)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2015-02-18 18:26
Shadow Cat, r.i.p. (she lived to be 21), generally left the room in a huff if I asked her (in other words, warned her), "Would you like to hear some clarinet?" But on the one occasion when I remember dropping a reed on the carpet, where it could hardly have made any noise at all, she appeared from nowhere, snatched the reed and made off with it down the stairs! Good reed, too -- but not so good with the neat little cat-fang punctures I discovered when I caught up with her and she dropped the reed at my feet with an air of triumphant contempt.
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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