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Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!

Author: jhoyla  Date:   2014-07-10 10:51 hold on hold on .. even Legere don't claim that their reeds are forever and reports from saxophonists put life-expectancy at between 2 and 12 months (a quick random sampling - not accurate, but I assume in the ballpark) and since Sax reeds are MUCH thicker than oboe reeds at the tip we can expect oboe reeds to be far more fragile and to have a shorter average life-span than this don't you think? the main advantages of a reed like this are probably immediate readiness to play, and consistency of performance so I don't expect them to be particularly cost-saving to someone who already owns his own reedmaking equipment and assuming that the legere life-span is between 5x and 10x of a regular reed, what will be the price-point? if I estimate my home-made reeds cost me between 3 and 4 dollars each on average then if these reeds are priced more than 40 USD, it just won't be worth it. That said, I'll probably buy one just to see what the hullabaloo is about (sorry - couldn't resist the run-on sentence challenge!)

Topics	Author	Date
Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-09 14:53
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JRC	2014-07-09 15:42
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-09 16:44
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Oboehotty	2014-07-09 17:58
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Dibbs	2014-07-10 17:23
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-09 18:07
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JohnW	2014-07-09 20:47
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	cjwright	2014-07-09 20:32
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JRC	2014-07-10 04:25
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	cjwright	2014-07-10 08:13
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JRC	2014-07-10 16:11
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JMarzluf	2014-07-10 06:03
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	cjwright	2014-07-10 08:15
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JMarzluf	2014-07-10 09:50
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	jhoyla	2014-07-10 10:51
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	KJC	2014-07-10 16:33
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-10 16:36
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	KJC	2014-07-10 19:04
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JMarzluf	2014-07-10 20:53
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Oboehotty	2014-07-12 00:46
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JRC	2014-07-10 22:40
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Oboe Craig	2014-07-11 00:49
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	ptarmiganfeather	2014-07-11 05:09
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	cjwright	2014-07-11 08:31
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-11 09:07
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Norm L	2014-07-14 16:04
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-14 17:09
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JMarzluf	2014-07-15 00:18
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	oboeandy	2014-07-15 07:00
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	JMarzluf	2014-07-17 09:15
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	jhoyla	2014-07-17 12:34
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-17 15:09
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	jhoyla	2014-07-17 15:54
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-07-17 16:48
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	mschmidt	2014-07-19 07:10
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Chris P	2014-08-02 19:34
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	mjfoboe	2014-08-08 20:54
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	huboboe	2014-08-09 23:50
Re: Legere Oboe Reeds!  new	Norm L	2014-08-10 22:26

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