bassoon reeds

[petite joueuse]

Really struggling with reeds at the moment. My favourite reed will now not play after 15-20 minutes - it just collapses and dies!

So I bought 2 new ones (at £9.50 each!!), and they both make me sound like I'm playing inside some enormous thick wooly sock - no "bite" on the notes at all - everything is heavily muffled.

All very frustrating.....

Have we got any more-experienced double-reeders here?

[alibonebone]

We have to make our own! Which is actually alot more cost effective - although quite complicated, but with practise you can tailor make and adjust reeds exactly how you want them, and know how to alter them when they're collapsing, or whatever, to bring them back to life!