Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-05-04 18:13
Dan Shusta wrote:
>
> What I was trying to get across is that some devices (I
> believe) can correct or refine the original manufacturing
> process which sometimes turns out uneven or slightly malformed
> cane reeds. To me, this "adjustment" may indeed help but can't
> really be looked upon as being "optimized" due to its being
> "isolated" from the entire clarinet.
>
Funny Dan, I've never considered suboptimal performance of, say, a Vandoren reed right out of the box due to cutting inconsistencies..much that I suspect it happens.
As you may know, Vandoren prides itself--quality control notwithstanding--on cutting to tolerances of less than a human hair. Assuming this true, I've tended to "write off" symmetry differences in play to the idea that within the single reed itself there can be differences in strength, despite for all intents and purposes identical thickness, due to mother nature producing variances not simply between reeds, but within a single reed itself.
And of course a mouthpiece's idiosyncrasies and a players anatomy can take what some see as a perfectly balanced reed in another mouth and setup, and make it unbalanced.
So for me, a perfectly symmetrical reed is one where a particular player, on a particular mouthpiece, finds symmetry, removing material from the reed in ways that were thickness measurements of the reed taken, physical symmetry may be off despite playing symmetry being optimized.
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