Author: NBeaty
Date: 2017-10-29 22:30
If you play double lip and it hurts or tires you out abnormally quickly, something is wrong. Even for people who play single lip all the time, it's a great tool to check to see if the setup is working properly.
From what you say, the increase in reed strength is directly related to the pain and inability to play double lip for extended periods. The 3.5 should be plenty hard for an M30.
The M30 has a very long facing (the point where the reed and the mouthpiece touch and the curve begins is farther away from the tip). This is to help compensate for having such a relatively open tip (distance from the tip of the mouthpiece to the tip of the reed). While it decrease the resistance you get from the larger tip opening, it also adds flexibility that is substantial enough to cause issues with control.
If you're using double lip, you're generally not using as much lower lip pressure as others might, so you have to have something to help with general control and stability (which is probably why you felt the need to increase the reed strength in the first place). With double lip, it would also be more difficult to keep the pitch up because you're not using as much pressure on the reed (which will bring the pitch up).
If you want to keep using the M30 13 series with double lip, I would recommend investing in a barrel that is 1mm shorter.
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