Doublereed Archive - Posting 000089.txt from 2008/05

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Fibre Reed review
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 14:33:29 -0400

Ay! So many variables.
Herb

On 5/9/08 10:57 AM, "Juan Zuccolo" <jzuccolo03@-----.ca> wrote:

> 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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