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 I just bought 2 Charles Reed reeds, & the upper register won't sound. Now what?
Author: Dutchy 
Date:   2005-09-22 23:56

After 6 months of playing on medium-soft and medium Fox and Giardinelli factory-made reeds from the Giardinelli catalog, I decided to splurge on one medium student and one medium-soft student reed from Charles Reed. And now that I've got them here, the upper octaves won't sound at all, higher than a high G.

Obviously it can't be the reeds, they are $12 professionally hand-made reeds, right?

Right?

So what am I doing wrong? Do I need to soak them longer than 3 minutes? Do I need to break them in or something? Or is it just that my embouchure is used to playing on lousy reeds, and I'm going to have to go back to square one?

Please tell me I don't have to go back to playing "Go Tell Aunt Rhodie".


Plus the medium-soft reed is noticeably flat. Is that me, or the reed?


Sign me,

VERY DISCOURAGED

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