Author: jhoyla
Date: 2009-10-25 11:33
Me too.
I had a windfall, a colleague who decided - after 25 years - that she would never make another reed. Most of the cane she gave me is French, gouged and shaped, and purchased in the 80's. I reshape the pieces on my shaper before tying.
Full, expressive and beautiful, but a tiny bit soft. The reeds don't seem to last as long as ones made on bright, springy, younger cane. Then again, my tips are thinner now than they ever used to be, so that could be the underlying cause of the short-livedness (extreme corners are significantly thinner than paper, at the moment).
J.
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