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Re: synthetic reeds

Author: dansil
Date: 2010-11-22 04:32

Hi Charla

Forestone reeds are my personal choice. Over the past 2 years I've bought about 10 reeds of diferent stiffnesses and of those 7 are still in good condition and playing well. The other three were damaged through lack of care.

I'll never be a professional player or even a semi-professional I still practice, and play about 10-15 hours a week depending on circumstances. So I think that the endurance of these reeds speaks volumes. I'm quite happy with the sound I get with these reeds although predictably the mouthpiece one uses is also extremely important. My Eddie Daniels MP seems to be the best with my 3.5 Forestone reeds.

Every now and then I try one of my 3 Legere Signature reeds with which I experimented and even some Vandorens just to reinforce my feelings about alternatives. But I won't be going back to cane or other synthetics unless something better than Forestone reeds turns up.

Cheers, Danny

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