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Author: Baron
Date: 2006-10-07 23:05
Right now i don't have time to make reeds( and quite frankly i really suck at making them) does anybody know any sites that sell cheap good quility reeds? by the way, I by my reeds from stellar oboes, They take weeks before the come in!( they are pretty good though) Maybe there is a site that you order handmade reeds for under $20 per reed that they can ship to you in a matter of days. Thank you
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Author: A_person13
Date: 2006-10-07 23:26
Well,I bought a Marlin Lesher and a Fox reed from www.wwbw.com.
They come in pretty fast too.Either way,does anyone know some other sites?
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Author: phoenix_song
Date: 2006-10-08 07:52
hmm... my reeds from Angela took some time to come in, and they had some problems when they did, but she *does* have a good return policy... she says if you're dissatisfied in any way, she'll either fix your reeds, replace them, or return your money (as long as you send the reeds back). She says she's working on the long shipping problem, it has to do with her new location (she recently moved).
My wallet photos:
Phoebe the Lesher
Marilee the Loree
Walter and Nichols the oboe reeds
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-10-08 17:03
Well, are you looking for "cheap good-quality reeds", or are you looking for "cheap good-quality handmade reeds"? There's a difference. Gower and Fox reeds are nice cheap good-quality reeds, but they aren't "handmade" except for any final touchups.
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-10-08 17:21
I must admit the Fox cor anglais reed I'm using is still going strong - and easy to get on with. I just bought it to try out along with several other rmakes, but it does need to be fettled - as do all bought reeds.
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: greenlimeoboe
Date: 2006-10-08 21:40
I suggest the Julie Paul from Midwest Musical Imports. They are most excellent!!!!!!!!!! Also midwest has a wide variety of handmade oboe reed makers to choose from! Check there! ;}
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Author: A_person13
Date: 2006-10-16 22:36
Just wondering,does anyone know some good commercial reeds in http://www.wwbw.com?They're just cheap and ship pretty quickly.
(Unless you can direct to a better place with cheap reeds and ships quickly.)
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-10-17 15:46
The Gower reeds are nice, and are consistent. And the Fox reeds are decent.
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Author: OboeAtHeart
Date: 2006-10-18 23:41
I used to get mine from Nielsen, now my oboe teacher makes them.
Nielsen's top of the line reeds run about 17 each - there are less expensive ones as well. Look em up on google.
-Jen.
*~"The clarinet, though appropriate to the expression of the most poetic ideas and sentiments, is really an epic instrument- the voice of heroic love."~*
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Author: A_person13
Date: 2006-10-19 14:50
Well,since the Gower reeds are out of stock,I'm thinking of getting a Dunkel and Marlin Lesher reed.I know that ML is good,but what about Dunkel?
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-10-19 14:56
I have to say that I have now tried the Nielsen red, black, green, and purple reeds, both Medium and Medium Soft, two of each reed each time, so I feel like I've given them a fair trial, and so far they have all been stuffy and flat; the purples were astonishingly open, and pinching them down didn't help, they were still stuffy.
But maybe that's just me. Obviously they have a corporate ideal of how an oboe reed should be, and it doesn't happen to gibe with what mine is. I like the clear tone I get with the Gower and Fox reeds.
I also liked the Evans reeds I got, except that their Medium Soft was (and is) still too hard for me to play.
And I liked the Giardinelli house brand reeds, but they aren't making them anymore. :(
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2006-10-19 15:47
I've had some really good Dunkel reeds. But, they are not all made by the same person (as far as I know), just by people who have been trained in his style, so you get a considerable amount of variability from reed to reed. Basically competent reed, though. (I would make this same comment about the Duste reeds from Forrests.)
Dutchy -- as far as Nielsens, the only ones I have tried are their "silver". They are pretty resistant, but each of the three I have bought (at different times) has had truly wonderful tone color, and held up really well. The thing that drives me bonkers about the Nielsen site is that they don't characterize their reeds completely enough -- just by color of thread, and rough definitions of "pro" and "student". It seems to me that they categorize their inventory more from an internal housekeeping perspective than from the perspective of the end user. You can look all day the the photos of the reeds, and not have a clue as to their playing characteristics.
I used the Evans reeds for a while when I was starting out. Here also, I encountered an unusual degree of variability from reed to reed. Don't know why. Some would be kazoo-soft, others very resistant. Maybe different cane? Dunno. They are also not really "American" scrape, imo. (So? So?) I do have to admit that the good ones I got from Evans were very easy to play, and did the job for me until I got snobbish about my reeds.
Susan
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2006-10-21 04:38
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They are also not really "American" scrape, imo. (So? So?)
So...this probably explains why I found a "medium soft" reed to be very difficult to play--it's one of those notoriously tough-to-play European scrapes, yes?
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Author: HautboisJJ
Date: 2006-10-21 06:55
Just make things clear, European scrapes are not be stereotyped as "tough-to-play", and as you can imagine, there are many many American style players who make very very tough to play reeds. =)
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Author: A_person13
Date: 2006-10-26 03:25
Well,I found some $10 reeds from Bill Roscoe. http://www.doublereeds.com/drprices.html
Can anyone shed some information on this reed?I really need a reed...Mine is 3 months old....I probably need to get it in 1 week too.
Thx for any help.
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Author: cjwright
Date: 2006-10-26 15:13
Although Bill Roscoe is a very friendly guy, and has some interesting oboe concepts, I would strongly not recommend his profiled reeds. They lack stability and strength which make up a good reed.
What are you playing on ONE reed for THREE months? A Typical reed will only last you 10-15 good playing hours. The rest of the time you are playing on borrowed time. It is best to have 3 or 4 reeds and rotate them, to prolong the life of your reeds the most.
Send me an email at coopsdeloops(AT) gmail.com and I'll be in touch with you about reeds.
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Author: cjwright
Date: 2006-11-03 03:36
David Weber makes excellant reeds, however you can only get them if you make a subscription for the reeds (give him a credit card number, allow him to charge you monthly, he sends you a certain amount of reeds.) Neither are they cheap, but they are certainly some of the best (if not the best) on the market. The reeds he sells from his shop that are not made by him called ocatillo reeds are also very fine.
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