Author: mschmidt
Date: 2014-05-18 20:31
You are an accomplished reed maker with lots of experience, so it is with some trepidation that I offer the following advice, because it's probably something that you've already tried. But whenever a reed is flat, I always just assume that the tip is too thick. You say that they're stuffy and not free blowing. That would seem to be aided by a thinner tip as well.
They may look the same as your old reeds with a backlight, as I have found that new reeds are always more transparent for a given thickness than their older counterparts. I always find that it is really, really hard to judge thickness at the tip except by pitch and response.
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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