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Re: Help

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2022-11-29 01:08

The first thing is that no one will be able to " show me what im doing wrong" over a BBoard with any reliability. The best you'll get are good guesses. The worst you'll get are useless guesses, and you don't have time between now and Saturday to try all the guesses and sort out which are which.

The best way to figure out what's really going wrong is to find someone who can listen to you live and, maybe, try your equipment out to locate the problem.

If you have other reeds, it would be a quick test to try them to see if a different reed solves the problem or at least makes the notes easier. If you don't have other reeds, you should buy some.

I don't know who Buddy Rogers is or why you didn't try the instrument as soon as you got it back "a few days ago," but if he's local to you, I would recommend taking it back to him and asking him to re-check the instrument. The place where you begin to have problems is where an automatic double register mechanism should be shifting over, so that would be the first I'd check. If it's out of adjustment, fixing it could lessen or eliminate the problem.

If you tell the make/model of the instrument, someone here may be familiar with some other mechanical problem that's unique to that type of instrument.

It's probably too late to go mouthpiece shopping, but if you're using the right strength reed (in particular, one that's not too hard), you should be able to get by with your mouthpiece until you can get other ones to try.

Good luck.

Karl

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