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 Re: Reed Flexibility
Author: mjfoboe 
Date:   2014-01-27 18:39

So I scraped 5 reeds this week and I left them in various states of completion; although they all are playable.

Today I had my lesson and I devoted most of the time to go over each of the reeds with my teacher

The major question: How to maintain a core warm tone with flexibility.

Well two observations:

The first is that my reeds made from softer cane just could not do the job.

The second is that I needed to scrape more wood from the reeds: thinner tip-tips, more from the heart and sides, and from the back windows. The reeds I made didn't have enough low vibrations in the crow.

The softer cane did not work because it could not maintain a firm reed as I scraped off the cane. The cane was too weak.

So now I have a few very good reeds and 1 excellent reed.

So it seems you have to take off lots of wood but must have a cane that is able to support a finely scraped reed. And of course you must have a good balance among all the scraped areas.

I would like to attach a pic; however, the bulletin board prevented me from doing so.


Mark

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