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Resistant clarinet?

Author: GenEric
Date: 2017-12-10 12:05

As I was organizing my reeds I noticed that all the reeds that I play well with all have a couple of similar characteristics. They all have a very low "heart", and after a couple minutes of playing, they all are fairly transparent. Although I might be wrong, this tells me that the reeds I'm playing on are the softer than the other ones in the box. After doing some thinking, I believe that my setup might be too resistant. Just wanted to note I play on a CSVR + BD5 mouthpiece, and a regular Rovner ligature

1) One of my weaknesses is that I cannot play anything higher than an altissimo F consistently. I think the main reason is because my reeds are so soft because I need to compensate for my setup being too resistant

2) Every so often, during fast passages on the lower clarion register that we need to tongue, I find my instrument "squaking". It's not squeak. It's more deeper and has a buzzing sound. It's hard to explain... I find this to be resolved my tightening my ligature but I just wanted to state this so that you get more information.

3) As mentioned before, reeds have a low heart and get clear, but not waterlogged fairly quickly.

After the break, I'll talk to my teacher about it but for now, it would be helpful to get some feedback so we could discuss some possibilities

Thanks