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Re: sax not letting air through

Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-03-01 20:02

Merlin,

I used to have this with bari sax reeds, especially in the days when I used Plasticover reeds (don't flinch!).

I had a call from a sax player who couldn't get a note out of her baritone, she then brought it round to me the next day VERY early so I had a look at it and couldn't find anything wrong with it at all - it worked for me, but didn't for her (!) but it was due to the warped reed leaking at the side rails on her own mouthpiece.

And the same from another bari player a few years later.

And more recently the same from a tenor player, and just after I'd serviced his tenor and straightened the crook so it definitely wasn't the sax - I showed him how to test the mouthpiece by sucking the air out and seeing how long it takes the reed to pop open - there was no vacuum at all due to the reed being warped.

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