Author: Loliver
Date: 2012-06-15 10:22
Hi everyone...
as the title says, its a reed related problem.
I got some new reeds, and they are horrendously flat-pitched, where a concert A registers as a borderline G# and top C registers as an exactly in-tune B. They are also sooo difficult to play, as they require so much pressure from the embouchure to make a noise, and so much breath that I'm all out after simply going up a scale, let alone coming down.
I measured the reeds, and they are all 72mm, the same as my last batch, but these ones are really flat. I did knock off ~1mm off the top of one and rescraped it, but that did practically nothing. I also tried thinning the reed edges to sharpen it to no avail- basically did everything that is suggested in Evelyn Rothwell's book and the only way I can keep it in tune is to have my lips like a vice around the reed and be able to only play 5 notes before I run out of air.
Any help would be...helpful. Thanks!
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