Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2021-03-29 03:04
SecondTry wrote:
> TSA regulations after the Twin Towers incident made weapons,
> including the knives that harmless woodwind players might keep
> with their beloved instruments to adjust reeds, that they in
> turn took with them into the cabins of aircrafts, a no-no.
I hadn't thought of this, but you may be right. It's also, for students who are advanced enough to want to do reed adjustment, probably safe to carry to school in a clarinet case, while a reed knife could bring on suspension or worse.
> Maybe it's me, but I find the Reed Greek
> creator's emphasis on having a flat reed underside, that the
> Reed Geek can, in fairness, provide, overstated not in
> importance so much, but in frequency of the reed not being or
> keeping near close to perfectly flat.
>
> In short, I think it a good tool for some, but for my
> experience, it's sold in part by its inventor for problems
> (table warping) I don't frequently have.
For me, the usefulness of the Reed Geek comes from its other cutting contours, mentioned by Arnoldstang, that can be used, with somewhat more care than I'm always apt to take, the way rush is used to scrape toward the tip in specific areas that aren't vibrating well.
I can flatten the back of a reed, when rarely I need to, with a piece of abrasive paper on a piece of plate glass.
ATG is based on the idea that the vamp surface shouldn't have high spots and that the flat sanding surface will correct them without the player's having to find them. With ATG, as I've always understood Tom's demonstrations, you only need to know which side is heavier and whether, from specific play-testing, the problem is in the "ears" or more in the main part of the vamp. Rush and the Geek (and knives) are more capable of zeroing in on specific problem areas to try to match their stiffness to the surrounding cane.
That said, my problem with Reed Geek (although I use everything, including Geek, rush, knife and ATG at one time or another, depending on what I need to do) is that it's all too easy to get the wrong angle and dig into the reed instead of skimming material off the surface. It takes a practiced touch and even then, a little carelessness can go much farther in destroying a reed than a piece of rush can.
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