I found this Clarinet reed on my friend’s website. It’s interesting to see how they mark the areas, and how they mark how different locations effect different areas in a clarinet’s range. I think in many ways, the picture has a lot of similarities to an oboe reed. Although I can’t prove it, I do believe the “upper range” and “middle range” areas marked on the clarinet reed have relatively the same location on a blade of an oboe reed.
I played the first two moments of the Bach G minor partita memorized last night on a recital. The good news was I had no memory slips, and played it pretty smoothly. The downside was that I practiced pretty hard that morning and afternoon and thought I had given myself enough time in between, but I didn’t. My mouth got pretty tired, and I missed some low note attacks. Bummer. but the historic reed held up well, and played beautifully with great tone and response. It also had a great range of dynamic range.
I’ll play Ich Habe Genug twice next week, once in the morning service and once in the afternoon service. I’m looking forward to using the special reed to see how things go.
I have a new order for reeds from a man in Georgia! The problem is, all of my individual reed cases (the plastic clear ones) are in a box, on a boat, on the way to the states. So I need to figure out a safe way to ship them without getting damaged.
