Klarinet Archive - Posting 000071.txt from 2009/05

From: William Foss <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: new reed
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 17:52:17 -0400

Say what you want, have whatever opinions you want - but you SHOULD
try one.

The work unbelievably well.

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

On May 26, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:

> On Sun, 24 May 2009 05:12:43 -0400, William Foss
> <billfoss47@-----.net> wrote:
>> After reading about the FORESTONE reed in the March 2009 "The
>> Clarinet" (pages 36-38) I bit the bullet and sent to Japan for one.
>> The total cost was about $40.00 (including shipping). I have now
>> been
>> playing it for about a month and can report that it actually does
>> what
>> the makes say it will !
>>
>> It is the best reed (real or synthetic) that I have ever
>> played. It is made of bamboo and whatever they do to it - it works.
>>
>
> Well, saying "it is made of bamboo" is a bit of an exaggeration.
> These
> reeds are plastic, made by injection molding. The plastic happens to
> contain cellulose wood fiber (sawdust), more than half of which is
> bamboo dust, but I'm dubious as to whether the resulting reed really
> inherits anything from the bamboo other than aura.
>
> I'm not intending to disparage the reeds in any way, and I will
> certainly be ordering a couple of them, but saying that they are "made
> of bamboo" is like saying that the Greenline clarinets are "made of
> grenadilla". In both cases, I suspect you could completely eliminate
> the wood dust from the recipe and end up with a product that was
> just as
> good. The quality comes mostly from manufacturing care, in both
> cases.
>
> It's interesting that they discourage adjustments of any kind --
> cutting, scraping, or sanding.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
>
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