It will eventually. I hate new reeds, balancing out the regs again etc but it will be perfect once played in. In fact after playing a few hours yesterday the reed was clearly settling in a bit more.Joseph E. Smith wrote: But all the same, I hope the chanter is playing nicely.
The old chanter is actually quite good but in comparison the new one has a more solid lower hand, the Es in both octaves are better balanced for tone and tuning, C natural and C sharp are both really spot on, high B doesn't rise above equal temp B. So there is less compensation involved in making it play right. The new reed is still a bit stiff and needs to loose some rough edges. It took the old chanter/reed a few weeks to settle in properly and it kept improving with playing for a long time after and twenty years later it is in fact still going nicely. Tonally it's similar to the old one but as yet with a touch of both Pat Mitchell and Ennis' chanters. You get worse.
