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Re: Reed Strength

Author: WhitePlainsDave
Date: 2015-06-06 00:08

O.P. "If going from say a 2 to a 3 reed, what exactly is different?"

I "hear" you O.P. on your desire to know, from a performance standpoint, how strengths differ.

Since that's been addressed, I thought I might also add that at the factory, what exactly is different about different strength reeds is "mother nature."

To restate, in all brands I know, a particular model of reed (e.g. Vandoren V21's for Bb/A clarinet) are cut identically. The reeds are then tested against some machine that measures resistance (e.g. a machine that blows a controlled puff of air, like a eye glaucoma testing machine, against the reed to see how much it bends.)

These indentically cut and strength tested/differing reeds are then sorted by such "mother nature given strength" into the appropriate strength boxes.

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