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Re: Biggest Rookie Mistake?

Author: Halcyon440
Date: 2005-07-28 17:21

Gosh I've made a lot of mistakes and am still making them. My most recent oops was that I scraped the tip to an even thinness throughout. I was so proud of having made it very thin for a change. However my teacher said the thinness should have been more tapered. It should have been slightly thicker near the center and thinnest at the end. My reed ended up sounded VERY shrill and chirpy since it was so thin everywhere.

I too overtied one the other day. I also cracked two reeds by putting pressure directly on the center of the reed while trying to thin the tips.

Hilda, adult amateur
"Nobody is ever patently right about music." - Vigil Thomson

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