Doublereed Archive - Posting 000090.txt from 2008/05

From: "Kevin H. Moore" <oboetools@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Fibre Reed review
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 14:36:28 -0400

Please ..... allow me.

I'd imagine that, yes. They're perfectly terrible and ready to go right out
of the box.

Re: scrape

From the appearance, judging from what I saw as Sameer held it up to the
camera so beautifully that we could examine it as light shone through it, it
seemed extremely odd.

It appeared to be in the "long scrape" category (although it didn't seem
particularly "American"), with cane removed beginning only millimeters above
the thread. Additionally, it had no spine and no heart. And the area scraped
thinly enough to be called the "tip" seemed to extend from the top of the
reed to a point about half-way down the reed. The last part seemed
particularly odd.

As everyone on here, thus far, seems to be commenting on the material the
reed was made of, I'd have to find great fault with what (at least from my
experience with only the American long-scrape) seems to be an absolutly
insane, illogical scrape.

Just my two cents -

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Juan Zuccolo" <jzuccolo03@-----.ca>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 13:57 Hrs
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Fibre Reed review

> 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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