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Re: "learning" to play a softer reed?

Author: Matt74
Date: 2017-05-06 09:37

FWIW, my theory is that reed strength depends on a lot of things. Beyond the more obvious, I think it may have as much to do with fine motor skills as strength. I never played ultra hard reeds, but sounded terrible on soft ones. I think I needed resistance to work against because my embouchure was unstable. I think this is also why I used to bite. In a similar way, I recently realized that when I write I hold my pen very firmly. I tried loosening up, but my line got irregular. It's possible that I could learn get over these things, but I'm quite confident that I do in fact compensate for a deficit this way - like using a tool rest.

I'm not saying that the OP has the same problem, but that different people are different, and that no amount of theorizing about the best way to play will make someone who likes hard reeds switch to soft or vice versa, or adopt a certain approach.

- Matthew Simington

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