Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-06-26 00:15
For the summer...I have no performance demands...just practice time! (Yay!) So I haven't been cranking the reeds out quite as heavily. But on average, I would say I use up 2 reeds a week.
I make my reeds from the tube cane, and I am generally quite picky in the early stages. The gouge is crucial to the success of the reeds, I find. If the gouge is uneven, or after I've shaped it isn't centered, I garbage it. With that in mind, about 90-95% of the reeds I tie on *do* actually make usable finished reeds. The remaining 5-10% are the ones that leak, or are otherwise loose, or un-closing. Or ones that are subject to a knife mis-hap!!!
As far as making reeds, I try to average 3-4 *finished* reeds a week in prime-time. So generally, I tie about 5 reeds each week, and then open them, and finish them the following week. That way there is a bit of leeway...if I have a rough busy week, and I really can't find time to tie on reeds, I already have some waiting. Keeping partial-scrape reeds also helps in times of stress.
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