Author: d-oboe
Date: 2007-05-28 21:00
after checking the adjustments, check the reed. Do you have to bite any other notes, such as high A, or Bb, to get them up to pitch? If you do...you may unconciously be biting the E up as well. Then, when you go to lower the pitch back down to match the tuner, the E will sound flat because the reed itself isn't balanced correctly to play at that pitch level even if the E is "in tune" .
You have a few options:
-Shorten the tip on your existing reed, or alternatively, and preferably:
-Make the next reed to your usual length, but make the tip area shorter. So, on a 70mm reed, make the tip area from 67-70, instead of 66-70. (As an example). Keeping the tip shorter will keep a firmer pitch center. A too-long tip will create instability, especially on the E, F, F# in the 2nd octave. The reeds may feel harder when you start doing this...but that just means you have to take cane away elsewhere...especially the bark on the sides of the heart.
It is possible that your ear is mal-adjusted...but I doubt that's really the problem. If you have been playing in tune with other instruments up until now, there's no need to blame yourself after looking at a tuner. The tuner is only a guide - not the dictator.
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