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Re: Reed woes...

Author: oboist2
Date: 2012-07-14 05:26

Have you ever thought of finding a good teacher for reedmaking and try to make your own. With my first teacher I learned only to tie on reeds, then he left the country and I changed teachers. I had been playing about 3 years at that point and asked my new teacher for a reed. He said " this is the only reed I am going to give you. Next week you will start to make your own. I had to learn very quickly as was doing stage 2 University performance. It is amazing how quickly you can learn if you have someone prepared to walk you through the various steps. I was able to make 3 out of 10 play quite well, 3, perhaps not quite so good, 1 exceptional, and 3 not good at all, now I guess after more years than I care to admit I get all my reeds to work satisfactorily, but out of 10, get 3-4 really good ones.

I assume you are a decent player so you will be able to make reeds quite quickly AND it is a hell of a lot cheaper - AND you get to make reeds that suit you not trying to make yourself fit someone elses reeds.

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