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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000091.txt from 2008/05

From: "Brian [Charles Double Reed Co]" <brian@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Fibre Reed review
Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 14:59:18 -0400

Keep in mind re: "an absolutely insane, illogical scrape", that these are
not made of wood, and so they are not, in fact, scraped. The old "fibre"
material could be scraped, but this stuff is molded.

The guys who make and design these things are trying really hard - really!
They want them to be better too. The plastic for these reeds is injection
molded into form. Each time you try to adjust the final reed, every time -
each new form costs like $2,000. That's like paying for each scrape on a
wood reed. So - insane? - maybe, just for trying!

Brian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin H. Moore" <oboetools@-----.net>
To: <doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [DR-L] Fibre Reed review

> 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...
>>
>>

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