Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2009-12-16 15:15
TianL, have you read my reed page about tapering on my website and seen the picture of the reed? If you did and still don't understand it e-mail me directly and I'll try to explain it to you. In short though it's taking just a tiny bit of wood, I call it "Peach fuss" off of the very tip of the reed before you clip it so that the new tip is about the same "thickness" as it was before but the new tip is now closer to the heart of the reed. In theory, and it works well for me, it makes the reed a little more resistant, the goal, but eliminates the harshness so ofter associated with just clipping the reed without tapering it first. It not only has to be only the very tip, but you have to clip it just a tiny bit because you can always clip it again but you can't put the clip back on. You only taper it once though, even if you clip it several times, which is why you only clip a tiny bit each time and play test it. ESP
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