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 Re: Have you ever noticed/what's up with that
Author: Dutchy 
Date:   2007-04-19 13:36

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One other boarder responding to the reed making businees thread mentioned he found his bought reeds good but dull and preferred a brighter quality himself.

Raising the angle, and thinning the lips on the reed a bit (a muscular technique) can do just that on demand.

As you point out, higher angle...brighter sound, lower angle...darker sound.

But, I can eyeball the reeds in question and see that the ones that produce the darker sound are actually physically thicker at the tip than the ones that produce the brighter sound. I hold the two reeds side by side, and peer down their openings, and one has thicker blades at the tip than the other, and that's the dull one. So how would changing my embouchure affect that? I thought it was intrinsic: thick blades at the tip produce dull sound, thin blades at the tip produce bright sound. It's not?

Also, to my beginner's mindset, "thinning the lips" sounds dangerously similar to "biting". I don't have enough embouchure control yet to be able to walk that fine line.

But it's useful to know that you can change your sound by changing your embouchure.

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