Rico Reeds Workshop

[Corona4007]

Howdy,
Picked up a brochure recently at the local music shop advertising a free welldone) workshop coming up for the preparation, preservation and personalisation of reeds. I will go along and check it out however I wondered if other forum members had been to this type of workshop before and if so did they gain anything from it

As it's being sponsored by Rico I would guess there are not too many other options up for discussion and maybe this is a limiting factor?

Appreciate any thoughts or experiences.

 

[What]

Well I've never had a workshop, but I have only been at this for a little over a month. However it sounds great. I personally am a big fan of Rico brand reeds. They do have a wide range of reeds too. The Royals, plasticoat, jazz cut to name a few, if nothing else it would be an excellent way to get to know the brand. I would go.

 

[sushidushi]

free workshop

At that price, you can hardly go wrong

 

[Greg Strange]

Howdy,
Picked up a brochure recently at the local music shop advertising a free welldone) workshop coming up for the preparation, preservation and personalisation of reeds. I will go along and check it out however I wondered if other forum members had been to this type of workshop before and if so did they gain anything from it

As it's being sponsored by Rico I would guess there are not too many other options up for discussion and maybe this is a limiting factor?

Appreciate any thoughts or experiences.

I saw this advertised in the Hamilton Rock Shop last week.

http://www.kbbmusic.co.nz/Events/Events+Calendar.html

It should be pretty good and you might be able to score some discounted reeds.

I think I saw Michael Jamieson play several years as a member of the Wellington quartet Saxcess - he was a student of Debbie Rawson, classical sax tutor at the Wellington Music School.

Have a good time and an one or two dollar donation that's pretty good.

Over the years KBB have put on a few of these clinics with Jim Langabeer, Brian Smith, Nathan Haines, Tim Hopkins, etc.

Greg S.

 

[kevgermany]

You can give them a bit of feedback about the poor finishing we're seeing now. It's getting like sandpaper on my lip.

 

[Colin the Bear]

Rub the reed on some glass. I have a Granite kitchen chopping board that works well.

Failing that a fine grade wet and dry. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mixed-Assorted-Super-Grades-Sandpaper/dp/B0030IZX3I

I have seen a player scrape it with a razor blade towards the tip. Not tried that myself but he swears by it.

 

[TomMapfumo]

Buy a Marca Jazz reed - problem solved!