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Re: Help Slightly Flat

Author: cjwright
Date: 2007-12-15 02:07

1.5mm is a HUGE difference in pitch, and could solve your problems right there.

As for realizing that this tuning change recently, I'd be curious as to what has caused this drastic change. Perhaps you're embouchure is getting stronger (or weaker) and changing in a way that you've decided that you simply don't want to bite anymore.

What your teacher and what we say here is obviously going to be very different; You state you play on a longer scraped reed, but surely "longer" doesn't mean "American" scrape, correct? I remember playing German like reeds in Korea and experimenting with compromising on a "hybrid" like scrape. That little dusting of bark in the back can make quite a pitch difference.

Whatever you do, make sure it's systematic. Scrape a 4 reeds and chop them each .5mm shorter than the previous. Compare each reed not from the bottom up, but from the top to the bottom; meaning make sure your tips are the same length, as is from tip to the back of the bark. Keep your purportions the same, except just leaving more (or less) bark from string to beginning of the scrape. This should help you to make some important discoveries.

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