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Re: english horn staples

Author: Craig Matovich
Date: 2007-08-15 22:12

It is probably leaking...

Try a suction teat, place a finger over the large end of the bocal with reed attached.

Suck air out through the reed and wait/watch how long it takes the soaked reed to pop open.

I am not sure how long a reed sans bocal should hold suction, but use the reed and bocal combination and compare that to how your oboe reeds behave doing suction on them.

It should be in the same ball park.

If you need rubber tubing to stop a leak, I guess I'd use it, just not in doubling situations. For that I'd find a reed that does not leak on the bocal.

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