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 Re: Reeds dying...
Author: Loliver 
Date:   2012-04-08 18:58

Thanks for the advice everyone!

I'm going to order some new reeds, Medium instead of med-soft, and I'm going to try 'over-soaking' one of the so-so reeds, as this seemed to work when I did it with clarinet reeds... Also, my embouchure may be used to very hard clarinet reeds (3.5 or 4, even on Eb clarinet, which if anyone knows, means your mouth has to act like a vice), so I may perhaps be too used to hard reeds, but I had been getting better until last week.

I will learn how to make reeds, but I'm kind busy at uni at the moment, and I'm not a music student, so don't have much time to learn it. However, it will be something to do over my 5 months of summer...

In referral to climate, the weather where I live has been crazy over the last week, going from 25+ celcius, now at about 5 or 6, which may affect them, but as my room is currently like a sauna, due to numerous electronic devices, I doubt that has much effect.

I have tried other reeds, but I made a policy of when I have had to consecutive bad batches, I try another. KGe reeds were nice, but sooo expensive...so I switched to my current ones, which are cheaper, but sound nicer, but as detailed, only seem to last a day or so, before things go awry.

Thanks everyone :D

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