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Re: Alta Reeds

Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2017-07-30 18:16

Tried the product, but not the subscription service or return policy. Those both seemed like a marketing thing with no real connection to the reality of buying reeds and getting them in shape to play on. The reeds I tried were very consistent, but stuffy on my setup. They looked a lot like Behns, but didn't play nearly as well for me. It seems likely that both they and Behns are made in Germany, maybe by the same company or maybe not, to specs from Silverstein and Behn respectively. When I visited S&S, Jochen S was under the same impression. Whatever truth there might be in that, for my taste, Behn hit the mark and Alta missed it by a bit. As for trying to convince someone's return department that the four reeds I sent back were "unplayable" rather than just not up to the standard I'd like, that doesn't seem like a plausible solution to anything.

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