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Reed Tip Thickness

Author: orchestr
Date: 2015-07-31 05:41

I was just reading the product description of D'Addario Reserve Classic reeds, and it explains that the reeds have "a thicker tip for clear articulation." I have always been under the impression that a thinner tip helps articulation both with regard to response and clarity. I feel like I have read this in numerous books (though I'd need to look it up to verify), and in my own experience, when a reed doesn't articulate well (response, clarity, and speed), thinning the tip often improves it. Vandoren describes V•12 reeds as having a thicker tip, which "gives body to the attack," but I wouldn't equate this to "clarity" necessarily. Just wondering other people's experience and opinions on reed tip thickness and it's effect on articulation.

P.S. Guess how many time's I tried to type "clarity" and typed "clarinet" instead? Answer: All of the times. Including the one in this P.S.

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