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Biggest Rookie Mistake?

Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2005-07-05 21:54

Vis-a-vis our recent threads on reeds and reed making, I got to thinking about the biggest mistakes I made with adjusting reeds when I was starting out -- and I'll bet others of you have things to share along these lines, too.

So . . .

I think my biggest reed-adjusting mistake was scraping (not clipping) too much off the tip (trying to make the reed easier to play), so that I ended up with a weak tip and a reed which didn't last very long.

And the corollary to this is, I didn't try to adjust parts of the reed *other than* the tip -- I was afraid to try it.

So, what dumb newbie things have the rest of you done?

Susan

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