Doublereed Archive - Posting 000088.txt from 2008/05

From: Juan Zuccolo <jzuccolo03@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Fibre Reed review
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 13:57:01 -0400

Howdy all,

Are those fiber reeds ready to play straight from the box (factory)
or they are to be scraped and tuned as a regular arundo one?
I also wonder if one would be able to play them without any "getting
use to the quirks ", as it might be unfair to judge the new reed
without training a few ours (many hours?) with them.
Finally, does a plastic reed sounds badder on a grenadilla oboe than
a fiber oboe with a organic reed?
Tasol...

Juan

t 09:42 PM 08/05/2008 +0300, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>As promised, I just received the fibre reed from Charles Double Reed
>and I gave it a go and this is what I think of it:
>
>- The reed SUCKS big time!! (IMHO)
>
>Anyone has any questions just shoot away and i'm more than willing to
>video tape myself playing that reed and show you how it sounds like.
>
>On the brighter side, I did call Brian Charles himself and talked for
>a bit about his reeds and the fibre reed. I told him how a lot of us
>over here were talking about it and wanted to find out how good/bad it
>is. Funny enough, he himself said and I quote "wouldn't let my
>daughter play on that reed."
>
>Question, has anyone tried his regular cane reeds by any chance? I got
>two of his reg. cane reeds as well. There's something I might wanna
>talk about but later.
>--
>Sameer Al-Abdullah

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