Author: SecondTry
Date: 2022-05-04 21:14
Paul Aviles wrote:
> I must disagree with the basic premise of above post with
> regard to "BALANCE."
Assuming its my post you refer to, I don't understand where your difference in thought lies Paul.
Like Dan so well expressed, (playing) balance of a reed, for me at least, is something I think that is a measure of a player's own subjective opinion, on their gear, at a point in time, in which physical measurements of a reed may actually show physical imbalance in order to achieve playing balance, or not.
This is why I am very skeptical of devices like the Perfect-a-Reed, at least used in isolation of other techniques. Two identically shaped reeds (at least within the fractions of a millimeter tolerances that we can achieve) have no guarantee of playing similarly given the inherent differences in the cane that mother nature has placed in each reed, and even within areas of a single reed itself.
I respect that people feel differently about this tool or use it as a means to initially shape a reed consistent with a shape that has historically shown them good fortune, which then may be followed up by minor removal of cane from reed sections, to tailor the reed, consistent with any of the generally recognized methods of material remove, from reed rush, to knives, to the ATG system, etc.
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