I had a canada hammer and it was a decent short reed in my opinion. It is a hard transition to go from a flute to a short reed but just keep practicing. If you feel that your call isn't tuned right, make sure you mark where the reeds touch the other parts of the guts with a pen or fine point sharpie or something. Once you start messing with the inserts and everything it's hard to get it back to the original position.