Author: huboboe
Date: 2015-03-11 03:28
Just to be perverse here, I'll weigh in. I've always striven to have no offset. If the cane is carefully shaped with a smooth edge, there is no leakage problem. When the blades are slipped, it narrows the chamber of the reed, effectively narrowing the shape but leaving the same mass in the blades, restricting the vibration of the reed.
When my students have response problems with reeds I've found that simply putting the blades back on top of each other will frequently free up the lower (big, fat) end of the response and make a recalcitrant reed much freer.
Like the practice of thin 'windows' in the back, slipping the blades has become increasingly common since I was a student learning reed making. Back in the 50's I never saw either practice.
(He said, cackling and beating his cane on the floor...)
Robert Hubbard
WestwindDoubleReed.com
1-888-579-6020
bob@westwinddoublereed.com
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