Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2010-11-15 13:15
Ben knows of what he speaks. He once sent me a container of Swiss cork grease that was orange-scented and smelled so delicious, it took every bit of my self-restraint not to eat the stuff. I have no idea how many calories that would have been, but no doubt it would have been detrimental to my weight-loss program.
One area that surprisingly has not been addressed thus far, is the metabolic benefit of working on reeds (by hand, not using one of those fancy automatic devices like an ATG or whatever). I'd be willing to bet I've expended many thousands of calories over the past couple centuries or so, just in scraping and sanding and filing and wetting/drying all those reeds....
Off-topic, but this reminds me of something my perceptive older brother once said while watching me dry some reeds between thumb and forefinger per one of the reed-adjustment books: he said that my playing problems were the result of "rubbing my reeds the wrong way".....
Post Edited (2010-11-15 13:16)
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