Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2012-10-31 15:53
I do agree that you can scrape a tip too thin. I don't like overall thin tips at all. (Don't like long tips, either, but that may be a function of my particular instrument.)
OTOH, I have read that you can't make the SIDES of the tip too thin, and that is my go-to adjustment (gently, cautiously!) for a reed that won't drop the octave or is just generally balky or not making a smooth sound.
And I occasionally fiddle with the area around the blend (on the tip side, and again, very gently and cautiously!) with good results.
I thought the common wisdom was that the chirp comes from a tip that has some spots that are too thin -- very difficult, maybe impossible, to fix, in my experience. But I have also noticed that sometimes, what subjectively seems like a little chirp to me is not apparent to the listener at all.
Susan
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