Home / Forums / Melodica construction, repair and maintenance / Some notes are difficult to blow after tuning / Reply To: Some notes are difficult to blow after tuning Reply To: Some notes are difficult to blow after tuning September 17, 2014 at 6:12 pm #3115 KirillParticipant Alan, prodz, Troy, thank you so much! After lowering the reeds my melodica plays and sound better than when it was new 🙂 I think that wide gaps were the result of snapping the reeds after filing, as was recommended in a guide I followed.