Handbook for making and adjusting single reeds
Subtitle: for all clarinets and saxophones
By: by Kalmen Opperman ; illustrations by Vera Yeager
Contributors: Yeager, Vera
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: M. Baron
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oyster Bay, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Subjects: Clarinet; Construction; Saxophone
Notes: Originally published: Chappell & Co., 1956.
Table of contents: title: The handmade reed; title: The commercial reed; title: Cane : the raw material of reeds; title: The model reed and the tools; title: A good reed knife; title: Making the shaped blank from tube cane; title: Cutting the vamp : the primary cuts; title: Finishing the reed; title: Adjusting and retouching of handmade or commercial reed; title: The life of the reed; title: App. 1. Reed scraping suggestions; title: App. 2. Suggested measurements of completed single reeds in millimeters; title: App. 2a. The German B-flat clarinet reed; title: App. 3. Sources for cane and basic single reed-making equipment; title: App. 4. Fraction, decimal and metric equivalents.