Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-04-13 16:34
I am at the point where I would pay $15 to...eh, possibly, although it hurts...$20...for a good handmade reed. However, I am finding that I prefer a brighter tone than the majority of reedmakers out there are producing. I'm receiving those rather dark "muffled clarinet", rather woody type of reeds, and I don't know yet whether that's just me, or if the reeds really are different. Fox and Gower reeds give me the bright tone I want; Goodtoneguild, Nielsen, Reedmaker, and Reedery give me the "muffled clarinet" reeds. Not that they're bad reeds, they're just not the sound I want.
So if you're making bright reeds, and you're pricing them at $20 or under, then I'd be interested in trying at least one. In a Medium Soft, please.
ETA: the best reeds I'm playing on currently are a batch of Fox Renard Medium Softs, for which I paid about 7 bucks a pop. But then, I'm just an amateur playing along with a Hal Leonard Broadway Favorites CD up in my bedroom, so my standards are probably different.
And lower. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
Post Edited (2007-04-13 16:37)
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