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Author: my58vw
Date: 2006-02-21 05:25
Reed problem resolved, thank You all,
Found a new local supplier also... very good!
Post Edited (2006-02-23 10:02)
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Author: my58vw
Date: 2006-02-21 07:11
One more thing, RDG reeds come with some kind of bad tasting sanatizer stuff which also seems to stick the cotton from their plug on it. In order to get the taste off you have to soak for a while. I just let the reeds dry for about 3 hours and dipped for a second and tried again, same verdict, one reed un responsive, one sounds ok but is about 30 - 40 cents flat... and nasty sounding. All my reed making stuff says throw them out, but they were over 43 dollars and I can not get more before the concert...
Of course I have a few promising reeds in the works, just clipped and back scraped so there is a little hope!
![[yeah]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smiley17.gif)
Post Edited (2006-02-21 08:59)
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Author: sylvangale
Date: 2006-02-21 09:19
I'll be in North Hollywood tomorrow (Tues) for my own rehearsal. If you can be in the area of hollywood blvd and vermont around 7pm I can give you a reed. Heh and if you want to sit in and play I'm sure the oboist would appreciate the company. I'm not the oboist, but a flutist.
Feel free to try my cell, <snip> (at a decent hour though, I'm going to bed).
You really need to build up a back up supply. Even good reed suppliers can slip out a dud or reeds become duds in transit.
Alternatively Goodtoneguild.com (Meg Cassell) lists RDG and Michelle Forrest as distributors of her reeds. You may want to check if they do indeed carry them. I do know that Michele Forrest makes her own reeds too... if she's actually close to you and you like her own reeds you'll at least have a good future local source. Otherwise I do highly recommend mail ordering from various professional reed makers when you have the chance.
Michele Forrest Woodwinds
http://www.oboefix.com/contact.html
Regards,
Stephen
♫ Stephen K.
Post Edited (2006-02-22 05:29)
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Author: my58vw
Date: 2006-02-21 10:02
Thank You for the link, I will be giving her a call tomarrow (might be a run before orchastra dress rehersal ). I was talking to one of the people from RDG (I like their cane, but the reeds just don't do it for me) and she said that they changed the way they make the reeds I use, and I think they may just be a bit hard now, but then it is hard to tell.
I can probably swing the 30 dollars or so for a few more, as for rehersal, sounds like a fun group, who is it though... just wondering - I play with a local community group on Tuesday nights!
Thanks again.
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Author: sylvangale
Date: 2006-02-21 17:16
It's the Hollywood Wind Ensemble. It's a mixed group if a bit westward leaning. (A small fraction of this ensemble splits off into the Los Angeles Freedom Band that performs for the pride parades in LA & Long Beach).
This is the band @ Herbert Zipper Hall:
http://www.freedomband.org/sitebuilder/images/HWE_2005_cropped-837x367.jpg
(I'm front row, second from the left)
We dress up well.
Regards,
Stephen
♫ Stephen K.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2006-02-22 14:28
Katherine Needleman, the principal oboist in the Baltimore Symphony, makes reeds constantly. The ones that aren't penetrating enough to use in a major symphony, she sells on eBay. They aren't cheap, but they're good.
Right now, she has only student-quality reeds on sale. See However, you can send her a query about top-quality reeds and fast shipping.
Good luck.
Ken Shaw
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-02-22 19:34
I second the endorsement of Katherine Needleman's reeds. I just got my shipment of her "$25" selection from her most recent offering, and at first blow, three of the four seem to be very, very good.
Her first-quality reeds, when she offered them, sold for megabucks. I'm not going there, but at this price, these are very useable for my needs.
She has a unique packing method, too. (Say aahhh!).
Susan
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-02-23 14:19
Er...just a friendly heads-up: My58vw, for future reference, when you go back and edit your original post, it makes the entire rest of the thread completely baffling. Nobody coming in late would know what your problem was. Granted, your particular problem has been solved, but sometimes threads spin off into discussions of other related topics, and just because your problem was solved doesn't always mean the conversation is over. And someone coming in late and wishing to participate, but lacking the knowledge of what the original problem was, might have a tough time joining in, if people kept referencing back to the now-vanished OP.
This is why Internet message board etiquette calls for one to leave the original post in place, and to simply post any updates in the thread as new posts.
Just FYI.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-02-23 14:36
Dutchy wrote:
> This is why Internet message board etiquette calls for one to
> leave the original post in place, and to simply post any
> updates in the thread as new posts.
I'm sorry, that's just not true here. There are many times when one wishes to and does edit the original post for various reasons. BBoard "netiquete" is what it is, and here the freedom and responsibility of editing posts is left (generally) to the poster.
In almost all cases the editing is for reasonable purposes, and adding to the thread not necessary or wanted! - many threads are way too long, and we start seeing the the followup posts starting with (IMO) the rude statement "I didn't have time to read the thread, but let me add ..." and adding redundant material making the thread even longer.
In this case the editing was rather way too heavy, but that is the poster's decision, not the readers.
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Author: my58vw
Date: 2006-02-23 20:36
Well sorry if I edited a bit to much, I rather wish that the thread could be deleated but...
The op was a little harsh about a good woodwind company and after dealing with them I found the post to be a bit harsh so I edited it... that said it is not the norm for me to do that. If anyone should know "edicate" of online forums it is me... over 6k posts of 2 different forums and maybe 1 - 2k on a few others...
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-02-25 13:33
It's not a huge issue for me, I just thought I'd mention it.
In my defense, I will say that I hang at [checks Bookmarks] eight other major Internet forums, spend a bit of time at about 6 others, have been since 2000, and this is the only one I've ever encountered that gave its users unlimited editing opportunities. One of them (the Straight Dope) allows no editing of posts whatsover--once you hit "Submit", it's history--and the others, like JREF and BAUT, all permit at the most an hour or so to edit.
And all of them that do allow editing also have this unwritten rule that you don't go back and change your original post--you're allowed to fix typos or coding, but especially once people have begun responding to what you originally wrote, it's not kosher to go back and change it, because it makes it confusing for those who come in later.
So, Mark, you are very much in the minority here. Your generosity and trust are much appreciated, but...weird. :D
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-02-25 13:40
Dutchy wrote:
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> So, Mark, you are very much in the minority here. Your
> generosity and trust are much appreciated, but...weird. :D
But I run the place, so "weird" is ... "in". I don't agree with the other places; possibly they've never caught their toe in a lawsuit.
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Author: d-oboe
Date: 2006-02-25 13:53
Woohoo for freedom of speech!
Let's all go kick back, do some yoga, have a cappucino, and stress about something *other* than the Oboe Bboard. The only person that should be stressing about what's written is Mark Charette, because he runs the joint. I think the rest of us should go practice, or make reeds, or....
D
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2006-02-25 14:06
d-oboe wrote:
> The only
> person that should be stressing about what's written is Mark
> Charette, because he runs the joint.
LOL! I don't think anyone's too "stressed" about this
I'm also a member of a few different places thereabouts and have been around the Internet before it was called that (think DARPANet), and I know their rules. Some of those rules make for red faces 4 or 5 years down the road ... or some interesting conversations between teacher and student when the student realizes that the teacher reads these BBoards, just doesn't post or posts anonymously
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