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From: Michael Will
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 18:25:38 -0700
Subject: Re: reeds

Douglas Tate wrote:
>
> Mic'l writes
> >Question for Vern or any of the craftspeople among us. How much would
> >it cost to make a reed set with stainless steel reeds, or titanium, or
> >some material that would keep going and going and going. . .
> >
> >Mic'
>
> Vern has given a comprehensive answer to this, but there is another side.
>
> I have said ad nauseam that my twin set of plates on an SS body have lasted
> nearly 30 years of playing.

I was really talking about diatonics. But, I gotta ask--how much note
bending do you do? I'm sorry I missed BHF and SPAH so I gotta ask..

> The only other factor in my playing which is different
> from the majority of players is how I attack the notes and how I get high
> volume without busting things.

I think bending is harder on the reeds than blowing hard for volume.

Mic'l