Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2007-12-22 16:22
It just might be that the opening is TOO big, and this is in fact a very personal thing. Some people really "bite", so they need reeds with a slightly bigger aperture. I was taught to really relax so i use reeds with smaller apertures, but still, this is very personal and it's difficult to say exactly how big or small is correct. I don't know where your source of European reeds come from, but if you buy from Ke Xun, his reeds are exactly how you describe them to be, initially free and then becoming harder day by day and then you would need to define the scrape, smoothen the tip - lay area and etc to free the reed. I have to, almost always, pinch closer new reeds (Do it while it is very wet and never the bark!!! Doing it with a plaque is also safer.) to make them more playable and responsive.
Howard
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