Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-10-19 14:56
I have to say that I have now tried the Nielsen red, black, green, and purple reeds, both Medium and Medium Soft, two of each reed each time, so I feel like I've given them a fair trial, and so far they have all been stuffy and flat; the purples were astonishingly open, and pinching them down didn't help, they were still stuffy.
But maybe that's just me. Obviously they have a corporate ideal of how an oboe reed should be, and it doesn't happen to gibe with what mine is. I like the clear tone I get with the Gower and Fox reeds.
I also liked the Evans reeds I got, except that their Medium Soft was (and is) still too hard for me to play.
And I liked the Giardinelli house brand reeds, but they aren't making them anymore. :(
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