Author: cjwright
Date: 2007-02-20 22:23
Beginners should use:
1. Stable stable stable reeds, preferably smaller openings, so that they learn not to bite the reed closed.
2. Responsive responsive responsive reeds to an "air attack", so that they don't feel that they have to blow a house down to start the reed to vibrate.
3. Reeds that have medium to low "breath resistance" or "blowing resistance", so they don't feel like they have to have an anneurysm to keep the reed going.
I think when most people measure "soft, medium, and hard", they often measure #3, without often getting #2, and scraping too much out of the wrong places to get #1. Only a well-balanced, handmade reed will get you all three.
I hope you understand #2 and #3. Just as in physics when you measure two types of force required, the kind to get a ball moving from a standstill position and the kind required to keep that ball rolling, so does the reed require balance to get the reed vibrating from a "breath attack" and further require balance to keep it vibrating.
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Post Edited (2007-02-20 22:51)
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