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Re: How many performance reeds do you keep ready?

Author: oboi
Date: 2012-04-13 05:12

I usually have at least 3. I usually play on old reeds since they are the most reliable. These are the ones that have worked no matter what I do to them or how many times I've rescraped them. It is very reassuring to have a reed that "just won't die" even if it isn't the best sounding or harder to play. Most of my new reeds are very tempermental. I may scrape for hours and have them sound nice and by next day I can't get a peep out of them. So, while I do make reeds up to the concert, I hardly trust them and have others in the case.

Also, most of my good reeds are the reeds that didn't work out too well at the beginning. The ones that are playable right away usually end up dying pretty quickly or after a day or two, turn out to be very bad and thin-sounding. The ones I have to scrape like mad and at first I want to chuck out tend to end up being my best. Probably harder cane, so that's why it needed lots of scraping.

There was one reed that I think I had for a whole year and it got better and better with age. The tip even became all frayed and bent and it still sounded pretty good.

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