Reeds Do pros use hard(er) reeds?

[LostCircuits]

Reminds me of when I drilled a small hole in my school desk and filled it with powder from some firecrackers and then ignited it. Today I would be jailed half of the time for the things we did then.

 

[Targa]

Reminds me of when I drilled a small hole in my school desk and filled it with powder from some firecrackers and then ignited it. Today I would be jailed half of the time for the things we did then.

School chemistry lecture theatre had long bench desks with holes every two feet for inkwells and a gas supply for bunsen burners.
Stick rubber hose in one end, block all the intervening holes with toilet paper, light the one at the other end.
Row of four foot high flames.

 

[turf3]

So, back to "if you want to be PRO you have to use a setup like laying a 2 x 4 across a subway tunnel"...

I will just call everyone's attention to the fact that Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Michael Brecker all were known for playing really hard stiff setups in their twenties and later moved to easier setups with exactly zero loss of discernible quality.

Machismo is not the same thing as skill.

 

[Colin the Bear]

My reed trajectory too. It took me a while to manage playing loud on a soft reed. I never did manage playing quietly on a hard reed.