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Author: mikeyarbulu
Date: 2010-01-13 00:17
I just started using the ATG system and have been having relative success with it. However, many times I'm noticing that after fixing a reed, the chalumeau register becomes really stuffy. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I'm doing wrong or what I could do in addition to correct this?
Thanks so much!
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Author: kdk
Date: 2010-01-13 00:26
The easy answer is that, if the notes weren't stuffy before you made the adjustment and they were after, you took too much cane out somewhere. My guess would be that you got too much out of the tip. You might try working a little farther down the vamp (not in the middle over the heart of the reed) so the reed's taper lifts the sander off the extreme tip area and don't press the sanding block down - let its own weight do the work.
Of course, if the reed was stuffy before you started, maybe you just didn't go far enough.
Make sure the reed feels balanced from side to side (as Tom Ridenour explains at some length in the manual and on the DVD I got with mine a long time ago).
Karl
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2010-01-13 19:21
It's a strange result. Check my reed page on my website, you might get some insight on what to do though it doesn't answer that directly. You might be making the tip too soft relative to the rest of the reed. Lets not forget, as good as the ATG is for making some adjustments you can't do everything with it. ESP http://eddiesclarinet.com
ESP eddiesclarinet.com
Post Edited (2010-01-13 22:59)
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Author: NBeaty
Date: 2010-01-13 22:52
I find that the ATG system doesn't make playable certain reeds. If the reed is too stuffy (especially if mushy feeling) isn't correctable by the system. I've noticed this over the last box of reeds I opened. Most reeds are not this way, but I have noticed two or three out of a box of V12's that are mushy and stuffy but in a "non-fixable" way.
What Mouthpiece do you play?
Best of luck,
Nathan
McGill Graduate student
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Author: Clarimeister
Date: 2010-01-13 23:00
As many say - nothing makes a bad reed a good reed if it has bad cane. Like Mr. Palanker and everyone else who says that. I agree.
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Author: Ryan25
Date: 2010-01-13 23:13
People really need to be careful with the ATG system. It does work in some respects but it is also very limited in what it can do. There is no universal way to make reeds work with a generic adjustment such as what the atg does.
If you have a reed that is unbalanced on one side near the tip then the ATG will fix that. If you have a potentially great reed with a problem somewhere else on the reed...like in the heart area or in the middle right behind the tip, the ATG system has the very real potential of ruining a reed. Sometimes reeds have one specific spot that needs adjustment...the ATG will take material away from that spot as well as all the other spots it touches in the process.
Everyone really needs to learn how to use a knife, rush, or sand paper to make pin point adjustments. Thanks to ED for his YouTube video...there is some good info there.
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