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Re: Source for short-scrape reeds?

Author: JRC
Date: 2012-01-03 13:40

The Korean reeds are not available on ebay all the time. Right now they are available at the UK ebay site. You cannot miss it. Actually I have pretty good luck with a seller named 100scent in US ebay site also although not as high or consistent quality. The source of Korean reeds on UK ebay is oboecane.net. Mr. Hong runs the site. He sells student and professional quality reeds. He is a very good oboist trained in Germany. His teacher used supply reeds to Holliger, he may still do. Now Hong is making the reeds for his teacher so his teacher can continue his legacy. Hong teaches oboe reed making to many students. He has a lots of student practicing making reeds, but with the canes and tubes at high quality. He once in a while offers his students' practice reeds to UK ebay. I am guessing that he selects better ones as the student quality reeds at his website. He makes the professional reed by himself.

I use both American long scrape and European short scrape reeds. There are pros and cons. But a person makes the tone, reeds just helps. It is easier to make easy blowing dark sounding reeds with American style long scrape. It is easier to make brighter and sweeter sounding reeds with short scrape. But I know some people make even darker sound with short scrape than any long scrape reed. It is just a matter of where your better skill is. Not sure about the value of evangelical flavor American long scrape talks.

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