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Re: So it has to be the cane right?

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2017-07-20 02:01

Bob Bernardo could write much more about differences in profiles and the patentability of reed designs, certainly, than I can. I just don't know. But I do know that the models I like give *me* results (given my equipment and the response and sound characteristics I prefer) that are closer (require less adjustment or less drastic adjustment) to what I want a reed to feel and sound like *on a consistent basis.*

This is, of course, as you suggest, at the heart of my interest in measuring reeds. I just don't think the tools I have available are reliable enough to say anything meaningful. And the time it takes to make individual point-by-point measurements with those tools on enough reeds to reach any kind of general conclusions is, to me, prohibitive. Life is too short. Hence my interest in something that would measure an entire reed in one computer-assisted scan (unfortunately, I'd also like it to be affordable).

Deciding among competing cane reed models can certainly be done empirically - you just have to invest in enough different ones to base a decision on. I've side-stepped most of these issues by adopting Legere as my normal reed source. It isn't that I find synthetic reeds a perfect substitute for cane, but they eliminate a lot of the inconsistency that has to be factored in with cane use.

Karl

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