Author: d-oboe
Date: 2007-06-16 13:49
If you are only going to be there for the summer, I wouldn't recommend doing any equipment changing - it's not worth it. Perhaps, if any of your friends have a wide shaper tip, you might beg/borrow/steal it for an hour and see if that helps.
Anyway, the problem at that altitude is that the reed barely wants to vibrate in relation to lower altitudes. I've had the best results by really making the reed by feel first - just get the reed vibrating at near pitch. Don't get too hung up on the crow just yet. If it's a bit unstable and wild at first, that's fine, because you can always put in some definition to reduce uneeded vibration.
What also helps is to not define the back at all, at first. Make the reed proportional, so that there is an area of tip, and heart, and back, but there shouldn't be too much cane out of the back at this point. If you are too zealous in taking cane out the back because the reed isn't vibrating (which it probably isn't) the reed will die.
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