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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000026.txt from 2004/01

From: AWeis98@-----.com
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Plastic reeds, from Arthur Weisbereg
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 10:52:32 -0500

Phil, I applaud your efforts, and urge you to continue. I have fooled around
with plastic reeds for years and years. They are the future of bassoon
playing. And I cannot agree that they play as poorly as you say. I have played
several concerts on a plastic reed with the New York Woodwind Quintet, and they
did not even know. There are some definite differences, but these should be
able to be worked out with more experimentation with which plastic is used, and
perhaps more importantly, with the shape and other dimensions. I will
probably start trying to solve the problems after I have finished launching my
automatic double octave key system.
Keep going!

Arthur Weisberg