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Author: runner
Date: 2013-08-16 19:54
At our opening meeting for my music teaching association, I learned that they have notice some of their clarinetists using "Flying Goose" reeds.
Any opinions?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2013-08-16 20:02
I tried these Chinese reeds a few years ago. They weren't horrible. A few were pretty good.
I don't know what they're like now.
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Author: Ronish
Date: 2013-08-16 21:03
Well I reckon I`m the countries most miserly reed buyer. The cheapest will usually do me and I make them last until they are full of splits.
So with history of this approach I bought some Flying Goose. I play a 2 but the reeds were so soft they were unplayable. I`m talking 1/2 strength, if that.
I phoned the suppliers up but they had no comment.
However as the price is so attractive I bought again but asked for a 3 strength.
After a lot of sanding and scraping I had a sound but it was appalling. I don`t know why because the reed looked good when I had finished with it, but no more F. Goose for me
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Author: donald
Date: 2013-08-16 22:14
I have never played on one of these myself but without fail every single student i've ever had that has turned up for a lesson with one of these has sounded awful. My approach is to let them play for 10 minutes to give the reed a good chance. Then I change them on to a Legere reed (I keep a quiver of different sizes to use with students who have awful reeds)- 100% of the time this creates an instant and easily noticeable improvement.
dn
btw- a friend of mine imported reeds from China, there are people there perfectly capable of making very good clarinet reeds and the initial samples were of high quality. Predictably, the 2nd shipment of reeds bore no similarity to the 1st shipment. Also the grading of strength was very innacurate- to do this accurately on an industrial scale is undoubtedly quite difficult.
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