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Re: stuffy note

Author: cujo
Date: 2004-03-01 18:47

It is most likely a leaky pad or too hard reed or possibly just a bad reed/liagature setup.
Play on someone elses clarinet with your same mouthpiece and reed to see if it is you or the instrument. If it has the same stuffness it most likely reed related, if the stuffy goes away you probably have a leaky pad.

Also on my good mouthpiece with my good reed sometimes is sounds stuffy even though my reed and ligature look straight. I move the reed up or down a tiny bit and that usually fixes my sound. When I have the reed tight I press on the tip gently so it just touches the mouthpiece tip. A wet reed will let you see through to make sure both tips are almost perfectly together.

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