Klarinet Archive - Posting 000742.txt from 1999/03

From: Gary Truesdail <gtruesdail@-----.us>
Subj: Re: [kl] My clarinet's resistent
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:59:22 -0500

PSHIROM@-----.com wrote:
>
> Lately, my clarinet has started to play really resistently. I feel like I'm
> working too hard to produce sound, but I'm not out of practice. I know it's
> not my reeds, but the clarinet is 20-25 years old. Would the age of the
> clarinet have anything to do with it?
> ~malia
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------

Check for leaking tenon corks, warped mtpc or reed. I have had stiff
reeds get stiffer in time as they give out. It turned out to be the
batch of cane used by the manufactured. Changed brands - everything ok
- returned to the brand a year later and the cane was ok again.

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