Tips for Choosing Reeds for a Tenor Saxophone

Video Transcript

" Hi! This is Dave Birkin and on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to continue talking about saxophone reeds with you. I decided that both of these sides of this reed need to be worked with. So what I am going to do is, just kind of, maybe just do some blowing on it, just to loosen it up a little bit, you know, and what you do is, it is sort of, just on the side, you know, just between… in here basically and that side and on the other side, you put your finger behind the reed to give it support, right where you are going to be cutting, of course if you are, if you do not careful, you can split the reed and then not be able to use it. So I am just kind of going to whittle away a little bit of this wood, and then I am going to try it out and see what happened, lets see, we take a little bit more of that side. I have my finger going in under here, and just like that, and let us see what is happening with it. "