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CMelodyMan

Softening Hard reeds

I bought a box of 50 #5 reeds off a site for $12 thinking that I could soften them to a desired, softer strength. I looked at Pete Thomas's website on how to soften reeds, I tried his method, and it didn't work. Any tips?
JPSaxMan

Shave some of it off with a reed knife? Or is that what the website said?

Softening reeds usually means just soaking them prior to use. Not actually cutting down the size of the reed Confused
sigmund

Try reed drilling. It will permit the use of heavier reeds and still have the bottom speak easier. Check under Bootman Reed drilling on the web. He wrote a nice article and gets press for it but its an old proceess, before his time. Works well though.
reisio

Decent music stores have little sticks called "reed rush" which can be used for sanding them down - which is what you'll have to do...I doubt any amount of soaking will put much of a dent in a 5. Some form of normal sandpaper would probably work, but reed rush is the traditional way.

The ones I have at the moment are from Leblanc, so if you can't find them locally, you can probably get them one way or another from www.gleblanc.com .
Tully

Cutting the reed makes it harder. As for the reed drilling, you might as well try (www.bootmanmusic.com), but I highly doubt it would be enough of a change to allow you to use #5's.
altosax4ever

WTF?

HOW THE H*** DID YOU GET 50 REEDS FOR $12?????!!!!!

I PAY $20 FOR 10!!!!! Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad Evil or Very Mad
CMelodyMan

Re: WTF?

altosax4ever wrote:
HOW THE H*** DID YOU GET 50 REEDS FOR $12?????!!!!!

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they're #5 strength reeds, that's why they were so cheap.
Altosaxophonerules

clearence maybe? I only know 2 ppl who prefer using 5's.The 2 are beginners who think the higher the number the better they are. I'm suprised they manage to get a sound out of it. As to softening reeds, I soften my reeds sometimes by using some sandpaper and shave the middle part of the reed down.
cannonball_phil

I use 3.5 reeds but other sax players tell me to go up to a 4.5 I'm not sure if I should take the advice actually i'm kinda afraid to make the transition because I heard they're kinda hard to play on I might as well go to 5, but they say I play to loud even for a size 8 mouth piece. what should I do make it or not?

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