Author: hautbois
Date: 2006-12-03 20:10
Sorry to not be clear, Craig. By "thinness" I mean the depth of the scrape into the cane, not the width. (I leave considerable bark on either side of the windows.) And I test the fluidity of the low notes by playing, not crowing, focusing on attack as well as ability to diminuendo on e.g., low C. Generally I make the windows along with the rest of the reed. But I find that the last two places I address in finishing the reed are making sure the tip of the tip is thin enough (especially on the sides of the tip, not so much in the center of the tip), and the thinness of the windows as they relate to low notes. I find that the blend into the heart and the part of the windows immediately below the heart relates to general fluidity, and that the thinness of the part of the windows closer to the thread affects the low notes more specifically.
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