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 Re: Why are professionals going for harder reeds?
Author: kdk ★2017
Date:   2019-09-15 17:27

Ruben's last couple of posts to this thread made me think about players who made and even today make their own reeds from blanks (or even tubes). I remember reading something on Clark Fobes's blog space several years ago (I can't find it now) in which he suggested, as nearly as I remember it, that no matter what you cut or scrape to make a hand-made reed vibrate more freely, it will always keep its basic feel of resistance - whether mushy or stiff or "just right" - because of the character of the cane itself. Hard cane behaves one way, soft cane behaves differently, and the basic behavior of a piece of cane remains consistent through the whole process. (This can explain in large part why some players start with commercial reeds in hard strengths and scrape them down to the vibrancy they want.)

All of this begs a question for me to those of you who have experience making your own reeds: How do you control the hardness of the cane you start with? Do you just start on a reed and decide at some point later in the process if its characteristics are promising or not? Are there ways to determine a blanks hardness before you get started working on it? Do you even find what I'm remembering of Clark's blog post to be true?

(If Clark reads this, maybe he'll clarify what he said - I may have it quite wrong.)

Karl
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