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check for a hole in your bag or if losing air from bag, if hide or sheepskin the bag could be poreous,,, or the reed could be hard, shave evenly on both flat faces(at bottom of reed). avoiding the staple A chanter reed should not be harder than the drone reeds. also check how much air is going out of your drone reeds. A hard reed will take some time to play in and can be adapted to suite player and can last years if you know what you are doing, most easy reeds are choice for weak blowers and dont have the volume and pitch of the harder ones. Many good grade 1 bands will give out hard reeds, I remember the times when I thought my head was going to blow up and the serious headaches trying to blow a reed into a nice condition. If you want results sometimes this is the only way,even though I would prefer an easier reed and not put in the effort these days. An easy reed may become very weak and not last a long time
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