Author: jhoyla
Date: 2012-07-18 22:13
I think we need to differentiate between a few things here.
Cane is always "harder" the day after you finished it. I think this is because the fibres you compressed with your knife slowly return to their original shape and stiffness. Yet another reason for sharpening your knife!!
Over time, a reed can get "harder to play", because the extreme tip becomes flabby. You need to push air through it faster, to get it to vibrate. Clipping the extreme tip can resolve this - thinner than a hair.
Mary, could the brittleness be the result of oversoaking? That is certainly my experience. Oversoaking has the effect of stiffening the fibre so it could give the tip the stiffness you desire, with the added consequence of brittleness.
Make sense?
J.
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