Reeds for basson and oboe mouthpieces

[bassax]

I just got a beautiful pair of single reed mouthpieces for bassoon and oboe. They're both made by Charles Chedeville and came with original ligatures and caps.

Before exploring all the reed options myself I thought I would ask if someone here could share their experience with reeds on these particular mouthpieces.

An Ab clarinet reed seems to fit the bassoon mouthpiece pretty well but when I put it on the oboe piece it's too big.

[Paul Cohen]

I just got a beautiful pair of single reed mouthpieces for bassoon and oboe. They're both made by Charles Chedeville and came with original ligatures and caps.

Before exploring all the reed options myself I thought I would ask if someone here could share their experience with reeds on these particular mouthpieces.

An Ab clarinet reed seems to fit the bassoon mouthpiece pretty well but when I put it on the oboe piece it's too big.


These mouthpieces had reeds made especially for their size. With my mouthpieces I found original boxes of the reeds (150 per box) for both oboe and bassoon.

Paul Cohen

[SOTSDO]

Glad to see you here, Paul. I've missed reading your comments for many years due to newsreader problem, and I'm glad to find you are still alive and cooking.

(For those who have never seen him, Paul looks like me (or I look like him, take your pick). I would imagine that the world could do without the confusion, but as long as he stays east and I stay south, there won't be any problems.)

Has there been any progress towards a collection of your writings from The Saxophone Journal? Paul Lindemeyer's book was interesting enough, and the recent book was decent (but no more), but you still are the gold standard in saxophone writing.

Enough gushing...

With my oboe mouthpiece, I got the cap, the ligature (complete with mis-matched embossed trim, botched at the factory), reeds (about sixty), a pamphlet, all in a nifty little wooden box with dovetailed corners and a sliding top. (My mother has since managed to dispose of the box and most of the reeds.) You never knew what the old coots at Hunleth Music on South Broadway would pull out of one of those drawers.

While I can play an oboe with the thing, I'm no Heinz Holliger...or even a Phyllis Ruth Goldfarb (girl oboe player from days of my youth). The oboe is so light in my hands, and there is so little material to stabilize the horn in the embouchure that it's just not fun. Much more there with the bassoon reed and even the English horn.