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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2005-09-23 02:35
I ordered them directly from the Charles Double Reed Company, online. They are a little bigger than the Fox reed that I've been using all summer, and they're scraped flatter and broader somehow. They have a distinct flat stair-step gradation down to the tip from the "top of the back", sort of a stair-step down to where the "heart" and "windows" should be. They do not have as distinct a spine as the many online diagrams of "how to make reeds" led me to believe a really top-caliber hand-made reed would have.
As far as being harder to blow, the medium is harder to blow than the Fox medium, but maybe that's because I've been playing on the Fox medium all summer, and it's better broken in? See, I have no background on this, so I dunno how I tell if I just got a couple of bad reeds.
The openings of the tips do look quite a bit more open than I'm used to, which makes them harder to play up to pitch, but again, maybe that's because they're new? I was afraid to pinch them because they're supposed to be "perfect" as is, aren't they? I was afraid to mess with them for fear of screwing them up.
No, I don't have a plaque, and I tried using a single-edge razor blade to clip the end of one of the early Fox reeds I got, in hopes of fixing its flatness, before I realized that you're supposed to use your embouchure to compensate for pitch (to a certain degree). I expected it to be like with a saxophone or something, where you just put it in your mouth and blow. So it didn't help the reed, and eventually I learned to do the non-biting embouchure on the Fox medium reeds and get it up to pitch.
If it's just that I need to sit here and honk and squeak for a while until they're broken in, I can deal with that, but I need to know if that's the normal procedure when starting with new reeds.
Because otherwise I am tossing these suckers back to Charles Double Reed. $24 is three hours of work at Walgreens for me.
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