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Author: Ed
Date: 2020-04-28 22:35
Over the years there were some lousy off brand reeds that would pop up from time to time, but now with Amazon and other online retailers it is staggering. In recent years I have had students show up from time to time with some of the current crop of junk. The results range from horrible to dreadful. The cane (? not really sure what these are made of) is horrible, green reeds that look as if they were harvested yesterday, really odd dimensions and cuts, you name it. No matter what the strength, they all seem to play like they are a .5 strength, either barely able to produce any kind of reasonable tone and most often sounding like a bad kazoo. Often they just collapse and are unable to produce much of anything. It is really scary that many of them have a number of online reviews and ratings which proclaim them to be great.
Here is a list of brands I recently found listed. Some of these names to to be randomly generated letters and look to be the same product.
Abicial
Absir
Accoco
Alician
Ammoon
Andoer
Bnineteenteam
Cecilio
DaveandAthena
Easter
FarBoat
Festnight
FidgetKute
Foraineam
Fovern
Glory
Goloho
Healifty
Huhudde
Lazarro
Leoie
Lescana
Lupifaro
Maiago
Mugig
Mvorvte
Origlam
Quarkscsm
QuTess
Riyin
Roffee
Shanghai
Slade
Suewio
SZBYKJ
Timiy
Tsorryen
VBestlife
VGEBY
Winomo
Yipaisi
YZNlife
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Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-04-29 02:00
Wow, I have never heard of any of these. Have they ever been sold in the USA? Are you sure they are not vaporware?
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Author: Ed
Date: 2020-04-29 02:36
Every one was listed on Amazon. I think in some cases this was the name on the listing (perhaps implying a company?) but that was not necessarily the name on the reed. The actual reed may have been one of the other names.
Honestly, I was shocked. I expected to find six to ten of these brands and kept finding more names listed.
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Author: donald
Date: 2020-04-29 04:42
I've definitely experienced this (students whose parent buy reeds off the internet). A friend of mine started to import reeds from China about 15 years ago, the brand was "Rillion" and the first boxes they sent her as samples were really really good.... then.... you can guess how it ends.
For a while lots of students here played "Flying Goose" and at least that was good for a laugh.
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Author: ruben
Date: 2020-04-29 18:43
In French: the expression for playing a squeak is: "faire un canard": to "make a duck (literal translation). Does this happen when you playing a Flying Goose reed?
rubengreenbergparisfrance@gmail.com
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Author: AndyW
Date: 2020-05-02 14:53
surprised to see ‘ Lupifaro’ there, they have a decent reputation for their saxophones, sax reeds , etc.
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Author: Ed
Date: 2020-05-03 03:07
Lupifaro is not a brand I am familiar with. There may be some names there that are decent, but perhaps less familiar to me. I was compiling a list of names of reeds that are less widely known than the handful of major names. I don't want to imply that all are bad. There are a number of them that look exactly the same but have different names on the ad or package.
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