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Author: DrewSorensenMusic
Date: 2012-10-28 04:42
Hello All,
All day, every day I try to uncover the mysteries of that which we call a reed. I have convinced myself that the top 5 mm of the reed is the most important part of the reed, or at least, is the part that I need to understand before I can progress to the other areas. I wrote a post maybe a month ago, and received great advice. On in particular post by Cooper I've looked at about twice a week, trying to understand how it relates to me. This is the post:
http://barbaratheoboe.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/reed-changes/
The picture is very explanatory, but for a while I did not know how I could create this change in my reed making. I was making reeds like the one on the left, and the reeds were ok, but were very resistant, and were not as good as my teacher's. I may have just discovered how to create the reed pictured on the right.
I just scraped a reed in which I incorporate 2 different scrapes in the first 4 mm. First I scrape channels into the tip, like I'm scraping the back, but I take them as deep as I can without scraping down the spine. I start at 65mm and go to the tip, as my reeds will wind up being 69mm. Then I scrape my usual triangular angle as seen on the pictured left reed to thin the tip as needed. The spine is thinned from 67mm to the tip. So far, the change is extraordinary. The reeds are starting to sound professional. I'm proud of myself today.
Drew S.
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