Author: hautboisteur
Date: 2006-12-20 13:32
When in a pinch, it is possible to use reeds that are even a few years old and get reasonable results. Like reeds inherited from a teacher, left in a box and then used. Not a very pleasant experience, mind you, but it worked. Of course I don't count on them, but due to freqeunt customs strikes here, cane can be stuck in the customs for months and keeping old reeds like that seems like pretty shrewed thinking...
BTW, a legend about Mordechai Rechtmann, bassoonist of the Israeli Phil, is that during WWII when there was absolutely no cane to be obtained from occupied Europe, he actually went to a river in Tel-Aviv to harvest cane for his reeds... I never bothered to find out whether the legend is based on fact, though.
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