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Re: Trouble with Tips

Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2012-05-27 16:06

Mary,

Holding the cork end closest to me, I pull the tip back towards me to work the corners with the staples angles up and sometimes rotate the reed lightly while in contact with the paper. More rotation toward the side being sanded creates a little more pressure, and flattens out a little more of the corner being sanded. That can also cause more of the extreme side to be sanded and thinned.

BTW, when clipping the tip I point the tip of the reed towards me, tip out on the curved far edge of the block. It makes it easy to see the perpendicular alignment of the tip with the staple, and then I can cut blades evenly or slightly shorter on one side (the side that plays down in the embouchure.

These little things have come to mean a lot to me over the years.

-Craig

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