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Author: JRC
Date: 2013-10-08 13:27
I am not sure it would help anyone but I have been handling too-open or too-closed reeds as follows:
Too open: I use paper clip trick. I soak the reed in usual manner. Then clip it. Sometimes I clip it closer to the tube and sometimes closer to tip depending on how severe the problem. I sometimes leave it clipped over night until fully dried sometimes only few few minutes before playing. Sometimes I fully soak it and sometimes less before clipping. Over the years, I developed feels which way to handle it.
Too closed: This is usually a worse problem than too-open reeds. I over soak the reed for overnight and even longer all the way to near the cork, then dry them completely in open air. Then it will become usually too-open. I dip only the tip of the reed in, maybe, 1/4 in deep water. It takes a "long" time to soak the reed to my liking but it will not be too-closed.
These tricks worked for me. Sometimes it take a few tries to get it just right but I almost always have been able to fix the problem.
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