Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-02-11 02:04
...or just REEDS?
There has been a lot of fuss about reeds on this forum lately, about how to gouge them, how to scrape, how often to make them. etc....
There was a comment recently by someone that mentioned Richard Woodhams , and that he believes that one shouldn't have 'practice' reeds, because they don't let you play the music. "What are you practicing???" he says....
Well, I would have said: "I am practicing for the day when all of my reeds spontaneously combust, and this is last thing I have to play on." Of course that probably wouldn't happen, and I will usually have good reeds, but honestly, you can never be too prepared.
There have been times when I honestly felt I had no good reeds. But what? Am I going to say to the conductor " Oh sorry this reed is too limiting I can't do what you're asking me." I'd be fired faster than I could smash the reed!!!! As musicians we have to MAKE IT HAPPEN. So what, if the reed doesn't feel great, we have to practice until the music comes out...regardless. It's not impossible to still get music out of a less than perfect reed.
To me, there are reeds in my case, and there are good ones, and less than great ones. I play on all of them. No "practice reed" and no "performance reed". Just reed.
Play the music! Not the reed.
- doboe
Post Edited (2006-02-11 02:09)
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