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Okay, it's time to come clean; For the last couple of months I have been experimenting with short-scrape reeds ..

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Another fascinating thing I discovered; The reeds are the same. That is, if you take a long-scrape reed and telescope the scrape into about half its length and add 2-3 mm to the final length - you have a short scrape reed. Shorter tip, shorter blend, shorter heart, shorter back. But exactly the same with a spine and slightly heavier edges up to the heart (proto-rails).

There are short sections on the DVD presented by players from all over including Martin Schuring, Francois Leleux, Ugo Heng and many more. Nicholas Daniel explains how he takes a great deal of cane out of the back of his short scrape, avoiding the spine and the rails. He also makes the last 0.5 mm of the tip extremely thin (any of this sound familiar?). ".. a reed by any other scrape would play as sweet"