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Author: tack
Date: 2006-05-20 15:55
I go to a major University music school and am drawing up a petition for a reed room. I would like to be able to present to the dean what other major and minor school provide reed rooms for their double reed students.
Does your school have a reed room?
Best,
Tack
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Author: GMac
Date: 2006-05-20 17:58
Hey Tack,
Our school (Wilfrid Laurier University) has a large reed room with 7 desks, lamps, quite a bit of equipment (gouger, planer, splitter, micrometer) and an electronic piano. I know that we are the exception rather than the rule, unfortunately, but I don't see why other schools shouldn't have the same thing. If we have to spend so much time on reeds, then there really should be the space for it!
University of Toronto also has a reed room, and so does the University of Western Ontario. I don't have a clue about other schools.
Best of luck to you! What University are you going to, and who's the oboe prof?
Graham
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Author: Bret Pimentel
Date: 2006-05-21 01:49
I've studied double reeds at three universities.
Brigham Young University - small, cramped reed room.
Indiana University - small and cramped, but well stocked with equipment.
University of Georgia - we're lucky here that a reed room was part of the plan when the building was designed. Big room, a large sink, plenty of table space, individual lockers for students. A favorite hangout of the double reed players.
Hope that helps.
Bret
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Author: GMac
Date: 2006-05-21 03:26
Wow...remind me to go to Georgia for my Master's!! That sounds like a sweet deal.
You said you studied 'double reeds'...are you an oboe player, a bassoon player, a doubler...?
By the way, welcome to the board! I don't think I have seen you post here before.
Graham
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Author: Bret Pimentel
Date: 2006-05-21 03:59
> You said you studied 'double reeds'...are you an oboe player, a
> bassoon player, a doubler...?
Yes. Bachelors degree in saxophone from BYU, masters in 5 woodwinds from IU, doctorate in progress in 5 woodwinds at UGA. Y'all come on down--Dr. Dwight Manning is an outstanding oboe teacher.
> By the way, welcome to the board! I don't think I have seen
> you post here before.
Thanks. Longtime reader, occasional poster on the various woodwind.org boards.
Bret
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Author: tack
Date: 2006-07-04 04:34
Right. Thanks All. Yes, there will now be a reedroom on campus. It's 14 ft long and 4.5 feet wide, but it's better than nothing. For now. The school will also be purchasing a Ross Gouger. It's amazing what having lunch with some people and throwing around some stats will do. Let the on campus reed sanity begin.
Thanks again to those who replied,
Tack
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Author: Shelley
Date: 2006-07-04 04:56
I've used reed rooms at several schools. They all seem to be along the same lines.
Specifically, I remember that The University of Akron (OH) has a modified practice module with a desk and equipment. The school owns a gouger and several shaper tips as well as bassoon making supplies. The auxillary instruments (ehorns, contrabassoons) have a home there as well.
The University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music (OH)has a somewhat glorified closet with a long table, several pregougers, gougers, shaper tips, and other items (like knives and sharpening sticks probably forgotten by their owners through the years).
I hope you get a reed room! It is ridiculous to have double reed players and not provide them adequate facilities to make reeds. How are you supposed to be the best musician you can be (and therefore best to represent your school!) if you don't have a place to work? They wouldn't ask you to write papers without having a library. Boy, I'm self-righteously incensed and will write a letter to your school myself.
Cincinnati, OH
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Author: mschmidt
Date: 2006-07-13 00:04
> The
> school owns a gouger and several shaper tips as well as bassoon
> making supplies.
People at your school make their own bassoons? Cool! ;-)
Mike
Still an Amateur, but not really middle-aged anymore
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Author: oboemoboe
Date: 2006-07-28 21:44
Hi,
Reedroom situation on Montreal:
The Montreal Conservatoire oboists and bassoonists share a reedroom (but it wasn't there when I was a student at the school...). Mc Gill University also has one (if I am not mistaken), but Université de Montréal dosen't (but I know the teacher there has been asking to have one for quite some time).
By the way, I just joined this forum a few days ago. I'm happy to have found it!
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