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Reed response question

Author: my58vw  Date:   2006-01-26 21:52 I am well in learning to make reeds and came up on a very unfortunite circumstance today. I use RDG pro reeds (ya, the 21 dollar ones) and they work very well most of the time. Well this one was really sharp, and I deduced after lightly scraping the back and tip a bit that the reed was just too closed. I got some really hot water and soaked the reed for 15 minutes and it opened up... but now it was a bit flat (probably from the mild scraping). Well to make a long story short, I soaked the reed and closed the tip a bit but the reed ended up cracking , even though I have closed at least 10 reeds with no problems. Well I had (ya had) a concert tonight, but now I don't have a reed and can not afford another RDG or could even get one (I live 70 miles each way away plus no money in the first place). I had a reed I had been scraping with me and I said well I would try and finish it. Well it was crowing a C but the reed had too problems. 1. It had a hard time starting (a little hard) 2. It has no resonance (I.e. I could not play repeated short scatatto notes) 3. It was veryy stuffy. I tried scraping the back down a bit, the top and a little on the side of the heart and it does little good. Ideas?

Topics	Author	Date
Reed response question  new	my58vw	2006-01-26 21:52
Re: Reed response question  new	sylvangale	2006-01-26 22:35
Re: Reed response question  new	d-oboe	2006-01-27 03:03
Re: Reed response question  new	sylvangale	2006-01-27 05:14
Re: Reed response question  new	d-oboe	2006-01-27 12:19
Re: Reed response question  new	sylvangale	2006-01-28 04:24
Re: Reed response question  new	d-oboe	2006-01-28 21:51

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