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Re: Help Slightly Flat

Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2007-12-14 13:30

It is worth while to check whether you gain a sort of consistency in your reed making. Open your reed case and if you can't see a sort of pattern that exists then it is going to be difficult to really identify what the problem might be.

I am guessing that you make "short scrape" reeds like me so "fairly long scrape" is a weak generalisation of how long your scraping really is. It may well be an overly long scrape, or, just a reed too long. My reeds with 0.56 gauge and and 11-13mm scrape length and finishing length 72mm works absolutely fine. Anything longer will usually result in lack of response and dullness in high register.

How long have you been playing and how long have you been making reeds? If flatness has never been a problem, it may possibly be some biting that has appeared sometime ago which has now happily and suddenly dissapeared. A couple of months ago i made some reeds which sounded beautiful but was slightly flat (or so i thought). I believed they were simply new so i tried playing into them. Yes breaking in is very important, but if the reeds do not respond with ease with no biting, you must quickly understand that there is something wrong with the reed, no matter how good it sounds. I ended up developing biting habits which took me a month to recover from after realising that it was my reed making that caused all that mayhem.

Howard

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