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Author: oboi
Date: 2015-05-01 12:42
I'm tinkering with my baroque reeds again. I have concluded my issue is STEP ONE.... tying on the reed. I have a baroque tip and due to my complete inability to shape by hand, I'm sticking to it. I'm experimenting with gouge and diameter of cane and it's not making much difference. I have been tying onto EH staples but as you can imagine, a staple that works for EH diameter cane won't really work with baroque cane (which is 2-3 mm larger in diameter). My main issue is that my blank is way too flared and/or has a ghastly large opening. I have to scrape the reed down to nothing most of the time and use wire (and flatten extremely), which is always making me extremely flat. The reed often is still too open to play or with so much scraping, just collapses.
I am tying as long as possible. What I would like to try next is to mimic some baroque staples by shortening the EH staple. I'm going to use a file. This will give me a larger tip opening. Am I correct that it will make the reed more closed?
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