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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-13 20:56
I've done it everyone! I have just bought the worst reed (the local store sells them seperately) in the entire universe, nay, in all history! It looks normal, but try it out and it hisses, fuzzes, and dries out in 5 seconds. No, it aint my embouchure or my clarinet, it was working fine immediately before I replaced the old damaged reed with this one. So never fear, fellow clarinettists, I have in my custody the worst reed ever. Now hand me those matches...
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-01-13 21:04
IHL said:
"I have in my custody the worst reed ever."
Put it on Ebay...Everything else ends up there...GBK
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-13 21:07
It'll be like that haunted painting... nobody wants it except for some crazy guy who thinks it looks quiaint, buys it and is plagued by its curse forever.
"it must be taken back to the woodchip mill in mordor from whence it came."
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Author: Kim L.
Date: 2002-01-13 21:40
It may just need to be broken in. I've had that problem before. Bad reed one day, good reed the next!
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-01-14 02:09
ron b wrote:
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> You bought just One reed?
Yeah - I read that too. One reed? Try buying a whole box of reeds at a time (Mitchel Laurie or better) and you'll be amazed at the differences from one reed to another!
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Author: rmk
Date: 2002-01-14 03:50
Sorry, Mark, but it's Mitchell Lurie.
Or is this some inside joke I'm not getting?
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-01-14 04:02
rmk wrote:
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> Sorry, Mark, but it's Mitchell Lurie.
> Or is this some inside joke I'm not getting?
Geez, no, just a spelling error ...
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-14 04:32
I buy single reeds from the shop because they only sell them that way. Don't know why.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-14 10:20
I'm doing that. Other than that little eccentricity over reed sale policy, it's a good shop.
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Author: Lynn
Date: 2002-01-14 13:33
Order your reeds over the internet, by the box...
Lynn
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Author: Peter
Date: 2002-01-14 13:49
So, was it a regular Rico? It almost just about had to be, to be sold singly and be that bad..
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Author: gretchen
Date: 2002-01-14 15:06
that's just funny. hahahahahahahaha. congrats ( i think). You should send this post to the rico company.
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Author: Ken Shaw
Date: 2002-01-14 18:10
The most satisfaction you can get from a really bad reed is social. Introduce Mr. Reed to Mr. Wall, nose first.
For mail-order reeds, I suggest the Gonzalez and Mozart reeds from Davie Cane Company at http://www.daviecane.com/Pages/Home.html . I've gotten several boxes recently, and they're very good and very consistent - 8 out of 10 excellent, and the other 2 not bad.
Best regards.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Joseph O'Kelly
Date: 2002-01-14 18:35
GBK said, "Put it on Ebay...Everything else ends up there..."
how true it is.
I remember once on ebay I found someone selling an item with the description that it was a piece of junk. It had no pictures or anythjing and people bid very high on it. Also, remeber that burned clarinet?
Put it on ebay under the title "The Worst Reed Ever!!!!!!!!!" and warn people to not bit on the item and you might wind up with enough money to buy a set of Festivals.
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-01-14 22:54
I saw a box of reeds for sale that looked ungodly dirty (as in dirt stains). Also the description said "I do not know if these reeds are used..."
Sick!!!
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Author: Joe O'Kelly
Date: 2002-01-14 23:40
I saw a box of "classic reeds" for sale in an antique store. They were old used and cracked Rico #2 and were asking $2 a piece.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-15 07:13
Yes, it was a Rico, and the whole shipment is buggered. I talked to a clarinet friend who goes to the same store, and he's experiencing the same problems with the reeds he bought.
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Author: Bob
Date: 2002-01-15 18:07
Certainly you are attempting to pull my leg...but at least everyone's awake now because we all like to talk about reeds. If you ARE serious then imho this is not an eccentricity and is not a good shop as you refer to it. Maybe the owner thinks that it's still 1943 when one reed was all you could get. Or maybe he makes more profit a reed at a time. If one reed at a time is all you can afford then I'm totally sympathetic to your situation.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-01-16 11:03
Or maybe hes a whacko. Anyway, I wont go there again for reeds.
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