Author: Shelley
Date: 2006-07-04 04:56
I've used reed rooms at several schools. They all seem to be along the same lines.
Specifically, I remember that The University of Akron (OH) has a modified practice module with a desk and equipment. The school owns a gouger and several shaper tips as well as bassoon making supplies. The auxillary instruments (ehorns, contrabassoons) have a home there as well.
The University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (OH)has a somewhat glorified closet with a long table, several pregougers, gougers, shaper tips, and other items (like knives and sharpening sticks probably forgotten by their owners through the years).
I hope you get a reed room! It is ridiculous to have double reed players and not provide them adequate facilities to make reeds. How are you supposed to be the best musician you can be (and therefore best to represent your school!) if you don't have a place to work? They wouldn't ask you to write papers without having a library. Boy, I'm self-righteously incensed and will write a letter to your school myself. 
Cincinnati, OH
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