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Tiedustelin asiaa Legeren asiakaspalvelusta (siinä toivossa, että lähettäisivät uuden lehden, ei tullut). Siltä varalta, että jotain kiinnostaa, alla on kopio Legeren vastauksesta.
apologize for the delay in getting back to you, I wanted to reach out to a few of our Artists and see if they had experienced anything like this. There are a few things that could be causing the reed to behave the way that it is;
 
1. The reed may not be sealing the same way; apparently it is quite common for the Otto Link mouthpieces to require some rework to level the rails or perfect the tip. If the rails are not level, or the tip is not smooth it would make it difficult, if not impossible to get the reed to conform and achieve a proper seal when played.
 
2. You may have outgrown the strength of reed that you are using. You might want to consider going up a strength.
 
3. The position of the reed on your mouthpiece is crucial. You need to have the tip of the reed positioned slightly past the tip of your mouthpiece as opposed to a cane reed that would line up with the tip of your mouthpiece. If the reed is not in the proper position, you will not only be over exerting yourself to get the reed to vibrate at all, but if it does it will probably just squeak. Start by positioning your reed tip about 1mm beyond the tip of your mouthpiece. If it still squeaks go further (very minimal), if it chokes up the reed tip is too far out.
 
4. Please keep in mind that when a strength is assigned to each individual reed we have an allowance of (+/-) 1/8th of a strength making it very rare that any 2 reeds would be exactly alike, though you should find that the variation is very minimal and in some cases undetectable.
 
Lyhyet kommentit: Sama Otto Link on ollut käytössä parikymmentä vuotta suuremmitta ongelmitta. Lehden asettaminen vähän yli suukappaleen reunan tuntui auttavan.