Author: Dutchy
Date: 2010-02-23 12:44
This is me three years ago.
I still have the reed, I'm a more experienced oboist now, and I *still* can't make it sound good; it's still an absolutely appalling noise. Even the worst-quality factory reed I have, sounds better than this one. It is also quite difficult to bring it up to pitch, as it is extremely soft and "biting" it to bring it up only serves to close the aperture.
There is really no such thing as an "adequate" synthetic oboe reed. A clarinet reed is only a single piece, so it can be plastic, but a double reed needs to resonate not only with the mouthpiece but also with itself, and it just doesn't happen when it's made of plastic. Plastic doesn't have the "give", the subtlety, required.
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