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Re: NOS Olivieri reeds - how to make them better?

Author: Noverbuf
Date: 2009-03-04 06:14

I found another thing! In fact this is something that made these Olivieri's playable beyond the 10 minutes barrier. I admit it would take me much longer to figure out this problem without the help of my teacher. He gave me a hint which I at first didn't pay much attention to but when I recalled it everything bacame clear.

So here is the hack. The reeds got deformed after 4 or 5 days of break-in period in such a way that the work surface became convex. After 10 minutes of playing reeds took enough water to swell even more in the center and the sides raised from the MP. They leaked like crazy I guess and that made them unplayable.
I scraped each of them on the bottom with a flat sharp knife to make them flat again and... each of them now can play for as long as I wish! They all work, some better then others but there are no duds in the box.
I never had such problems with Vandoren and wouldn't know this problem could exist.

By the way, I'm sure I read couple times before that people use sandpaper to flatten the bottom of reeds but again I never payed attention to those posts. Is scraping with the sharp knife also a valid flattening technique?

I don't know what further suprises these reeds have prepared for me but for now the problem is solved.

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