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 Re: Why are professionals going for harder reeds?
Author: Ken Lagace 
Date:   2019-09-15 19:53

>>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?
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It doesn't matter.
Making your own reed from tubes results in the best reed you will get from what you ever have, depending on the amount of experience you have.
And it is even more complicated than that.
Depending on which side of the cane got the most sun and most wind, half of the tube may be harder than the other half, and you may have split it in such a way that half the reed is harder than the other half. But a skilled reed maker will get the best from what he/she makes. And the result is usually good enough for practicing, or given to students who do not have reeds as nice.

It is the same idea as when Michelangelo said, "There is a fine sculpture inside every piece of marble." It is up to the sculptor/reed maker to remove everything not needed to make it great.
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