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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2005-09-24 13:08
I sent them back. I don't have $24 to lock up as an "investment".
Meanwhile, out of curiousity I also ordered and received three lower-priced (read: El Cheapo) reeds from someone on eBay--they too need "biting" to play up to pitch, but at least they (a) play the upper octave without complaint, and (b) don't give me random squeaks in the lower register.
Thus I conclude that it's not a case of me ambitiously outpacing my embouchure, but that Brian Charles had an off-day on the day he was supposed to "hand finish" the (probably quite large) batch of reeds that included my two. It's still mass-producing reeds, so they're still "factory" reeds to a certain extent. And when he sits down to "hand finish" probably several hundred reeds at a time, it's not surprising that they may not get quite as much attention as one of his eBay from-scratch handmade reed may.
I did try pinching them--all it did was make them close up completely when I asked for A'', Bb'', and C''. And they're billed as "student" reeds, specially suitable for someone who hasn't been playing long---which is me. I would think that a "student" reed would require LESS touching up and adjusting by the user, since it could reasonably be assumed that a student wouldn't know how, that a student, like a student driver, needs something she can hop in and start up and drive away, without having to worry about complex shifting patterns.
Ya know, it's fine with me if I just keep on using the Fox reeds. It's just that everybody keeps going, "Oh, my goodness, you can't use factory reeds!" that prompted me to experiment with "hand-made" reeds.
I ordered two Evans reeds from eBay last night. We'll see.
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ohsuzan |
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sömeone |
2005-09-23 09:03 |
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2005-09-23 12:27 |
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sömeone |
2005-09-23 13:32 |
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d-oboe |
2005-09-24 21:15 |
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oboist |
2005-09-25 23:41 |
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d-oboe |
2005-09-26 17:21 |
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ohsuzan |
2005-09-23 13:41 |
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2005-09-23 17:47 |
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vboboe |
2005-09-24 04:22 |
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sömeone |
2005-09-24 08:43 |
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Re: I just bought 2 Charles Reed reeds, & the upper register won't sound. Now wh new |
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Dutchy |
2005-09-24 13:08 |
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ohsuzan |
2005-09-24 15:14 |
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Dutchy |
2005-09-24 20:08 |
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d-oboe |
2005-09-25 21:09 |
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Dutchy |
2005-09-28 16:12 |
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sylvangale |
2005-09-28 17:26 |
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oboist |
2005-09-28 18:42 |
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ohsuzan |
2005-09-28 20:34 |
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sylvangale |
2005-09-29 17:20 |
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Dutchy |
2005-09-30 23:15 |
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ohsuzan |
2005-10-01 02:37 |
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rgombine |
2005-10-01 03:58 |
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sömeone |
2005-10-01 12:16 |
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2005-10-04 07:25 |
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sömeone |
2005-10-04 09:26 |
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Dutchy |
2005-10-05 02:04 |
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ohsuzan |
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