Author: Loree BF51
Date: 2012-04-05 01:55
A quite excellent contribution and thanks for the “plug”! I don’t think you can go too far wrong with Mr. Hubbard’s techniques. When you consider what we go through to get the sides of a piece of cane to really match up (even if we’re using G/S/&F), it doesn’t seem quite right then, to sideslip the blades, thereby, at least, reducing the size of the air channel through the reed. And I’m not sure that, in each case, a really good seal will automatically occur.
While we’re examining these basic processes in reed making, an unusual thing happened when I started scraping on this first batch of reeds (6 O’s, 2 E.H.’s. and 2 Od’A’s) after a very long "vacation", in that, something just didn’t feel quite right. I put the tube against the palm of my hand like I had done before, a countless number of times, but I didn’t feel that I could control the position of the reed, the way I wanted to. So, I decided to just put the reed back on the mandrel and now I was able to position and rotate the reed with ease and I could even put the handle end up against my chest to stabilize the reed even more, say for side of tip scraping (if I remember right). I wonder if anyone does this? (Finally, Copy&Paste works here!)
Regards.
R. Still former student
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