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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