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Re: D'amore reeds

Author: hautbois
Date: 2008-10-04 13:01

Since d'amore has been a specialty of mine, I did, some time back, purchase sample d'amore reeds from a few different places to see if some things those makers were doing would improve my reeds. I did not find anything that worked for me, and stayed with my own reedmaking set-up. Since players have such different needs and the bocals and instruments make such a difference it is hard to recommend one brand as good and another one as not good. I did find the Stuart Dunkel reeds to be serviceable for me for home practice, though they closed down too much compared to my reeds. The Charles ones were way too long and open for me. The KGe ones were too hard for me, but well-made. Most of my playing experience was on a Loree d'amore, though over the last few years I moved to a new Marigaux d'amore. I use a Laubin bocal on both instruments. Maybe that will help.

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