How do you make clarinet reeds?

Answer 1

1. wet the reed using your mouth until it is moist.

2. Line up the reed and the mouth peice

3. get the ligature(the metal, rubber or plastic thing) and slide it over the mouth peice.

4. line up the reed, mouth peice and ligature then tighten the ligature.

5. make sure the ligature is past the light yellow part of the reed.

6. build your Clarinet together and blow into it.

The best reed brand I recommend is Vandorean. Rico is a very bad brand and will break easily.

Answer 2

A reed instrument produces sound by passing wind between either two reeds (double reed) or a reed and the mouthpiece (single reed). This causes the reed (or reeds) to vibrate which generates the characteristic buzzing sound of reed instruments.


Typical single reed instruments would be the clarinet and saxaphone. Typical double reed instruments are the Oboe and bassoon.


Reeds in professional instruments are generally made from a sliver of bamboo cane, tapered down to a very fine thickness, although synthetic reeds are also available.


A very rudimentary double reed can be made by flattening the last 2cm of a drinking straw and cutting it to a blunted "V" shape.


Of course, having made a reeded mouthpiece doesn't constitute an "instrument". You need some way of amplifying the sound and varying the pitch. The ways of doing this are almost infinite - just look at the variety of wind instruments there are available.


However, one of the simplest forms would be a straight tube with holes along its length which can be opened and closed with the musician's fingers.

In fact, put some holes in the aforementioned drinking straw and you have yourself a tiny little reed instrument. It's not exactly "wood crafts" though.

Answer 3

The process of making an oboe reed is very complicated. There are entire books written on how to make reeds. The process also requires a variety of expensive tools such as a reed knife (not just any old knife, but one designed for scraping reeds), a mandrel, a plaque, nylon thread (really strong stuff that is impossible to break), and cane. And, if you want to make them completely from scratch, a gouging machine, shaper tip, etc.

In short, though, to make an oboe reed you take a piece of cane (kind of like bamboo), that has been shaped and cut and folded in half. You tie this piece of cane to a tube (metal with cork at the bottom) using nylon thread. There is a specific way to wrap the thread and knot it to make sure it is secure and won't come undone. Then, the reed must be scraped with the knife into a specific thickness (which is different in different areas of the reed) and clipped open at the tip (where it was folded over). Then it is fine tuned by scraping to get it in tune and to have a good sound.

It is NOT an easy process. It takes oboe players many years to perfect this skill, but it is an extremely important skill for them to have.

Hope this answers your question well enough.

Answer 4

Reed instruments are instruments that require a wooden reed to create the instrument's tone.

They are typically woodwinds.

Examples:

• Clarinets [single-reed: one reed required for the mouthpiece]
• Saxophones [single-reed: one reed required for the mouthpiece]
• Oboe [double-reed: two reeds make up the mouthpiece to create a specific tone]
• Bassoon [double-reed: two reeds make up the mouthpiece to create a specific tone]

Answer 5

First you must wet the reed. this will give it the best vibration to give your instrument the best sound. place the wet reed on the mouthpiece (the side with the hole) with the side with the curve up.

the tip of the reed should not be over the edge of the mouthpiece or way down below the mouth piece. you should see a little bit of the mouthpiece by the tip of the reed.

secure the ligature on the mouth piece. don't tighten too much though. the side of the ligature with the screws should be facing down.

remember: where the hole is on the mouthpiece should be facing down, the reed should be facing down, and the screws on the ligature should be facing down.

Answer 6

you find bamboo and cut it down to size

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It isn't and easy thing to do.

You'll need specially grown cane, properly aged and dried. You'll also need a number of special tools, none of which are inexpensive. Assuming you have all of these things you'll now need a lot of patience and a great deal practice to build up experience.

Even modifying or "customizing" pre-made reeds is a challenge most players don't usually take up as part of clarinet playing.

Answer 7

To do that you really need to ask your oboe teacher and/or get a book on the subject. It's extremely difficult and takes loads of practice. Good Luck!