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 Re: Weird reed
Author: jhoyla 
Date:   2008-01-01 06:21

Depending on how bad your "collapsed dome" is, the following may work as a diagnostic. Take some cling film (saran wrap) and place a couple of layers between the octave pad and the metal octave hole, and try your vacuum test again. Any improvement?

If your vacuum test is much better, you have found your culprit! And an octave-key pad is relatively easy to replace, even by yourself.

The balancing of the C tone-hole key (below LH1), the Bb tone-hole (below LH2), and the LH2 and LH3 pads themselves is quite tricky, and the slightest pad imperfection here can also cause problems. At this point it may be more worthwhile to cut your losses and find a good repairman to regulate them for you.

Good luck!
J.

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