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 Re: Reed Making as a Business? - a discussion
Author: Craig Matovich 
Date:   2007-04-15 15:48

RE: Lotta math, dude. You're sure you wanna do this?

With math and reeds my skills bloomed late,
They've became a work of art now,
Replacing love for hate.

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I may or may not attempt a reed business but am enjoying the disussion, perspectives and learning of the study/contemplation of it.

Time is a main consideration. Leaving plenty of time for music and exercise and the music gets most, between practicing oboe and ehorn and piano, composition and still trying to learn to play the flute well... those being my main musical passions as a player these days.

I started this out just wondering what would be the value for players getting access to some of the best reeds (subjective I know... and a bit of a brag), and I realize that is a big leap of faith to be taken literally. Actually, probably impossible to believe. Suffice it to say responsive, in tune, great tone and expressive by design is a pretty good reed.

I think of reeds like I do my cars... one for every day use for commuting which is fine, but the fun is driving the Z4. With reeds I always try for the Z4, at least the ones used in public...incredible to operate, awesome engineering and handling that is out of this world. You can push it hard in the turns and it just sits down and becomes stable. Pushing a reed like that with confidence is the nerdy oboist equivalent, but FUN!

Oh yeah, my other passion is rag top sports cars... had 10 over the years, starting with well worn used Briitish jobs with some insanity in their engineering. Went through some very nice Jappaneese models and settled on BMW for now.

Reed 'engineering' after lots of experience is akin to the differences in the cars. As someone said, 'Everyman should own a convertible at least once in his life.' My corrolary to that would be 'every oboist should get to play the Z4 of reeds as well.'

Its a sick world and I am a happy man.

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