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Author: Chris P
Date: 2016-06-13 12:31
The fit in my reed socket is bordering on the tight side - the problem is my fingertips are very slippery so I lost my grip on the reed when rotating it.
I have trouble gripping plastic carrier bags in supermarkets to open them as my fingertips are that slippery when dry they just slide on the plastic. As these reeds have a smooth surface with no shoulder and no cork or binding as you have on cane reeds, that was it - it all happened so quickly there was nothing I could do.
I normally grip reeds at the base of the binding and the top of the cork to gain purchase when rotating them, but Legere oboe reeds have a taper there instead.
The worst part is these reeds cost around twenty times the price of my usual reeds - it's bad enough trashing a relatively inexpensive £6-7 cane reed compared to a £130 reed made worse by the fact I only had it a few days and only around a couple of hours of playing on it.
Maybe I'll wrap some binding around the next one to give it some grip, but that's not really feasible on a sharply tapered tube as the binding will only slide up. But it'll be a while before I get another one due to the price - they're not that far off what I charge to service a clarinet, so I'll have to service more clarinets first to save up enough.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
Post Edited (2016-06-14 17:45)
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