so, if you have read in the oboe reed topic that i am out of reeds, i am:D

I called the music store and they said they had Accent reeds, and Emerald...

are these okay reeds to get? My teacher could alter them for me, but are they even worth it?

check your PM

I have an Emerald reed and personally don't like it. I can't remember why, though, I still use it sometimes but I'm trying to clean out some older reeds first.

where I live, the only bassoon reeds available ar jones, yuck! I made the mistake of buying them !
next time, I will order fox renard!

cool. i ordered some handmade ones of the internet. They are the black edmund nielson woodwind reeds. they got good reviews and weren't too expensive.

i went through all my reeds today... they are all dead... except for two which are very hard to control. they will make good practicing reeds, so i can practice good tone and control and stuff, just not acceptable for using at school(i dont want to hurt anyones ears:D) and definetly not for performing.

I like Forrest Music's reeds.

Hmm, I don't see why you wouldn't like Emerald reeds... before I could make reeds I always used them and they worked well enough. I mean, not as good as a homemade, but for a store bought, yeah. I got fourth chair symphonic band in the State competition this year, the guy in third chair used Eerald. You can get pretty far with them.

hmmm... i'll keep that in mind

The Black Nielsen's are good...for a student reed at least...

im still pretty much a student:D

With the shortage of oboe reeds on the market today we can no longer afford to be picky. I have found that Emerald, Lesher, Selmer etc are all decent reeds. You may have to buy 2 or 3 to find the best one for you because no 2 reeds are identical. In any event, it is difficult to even get reeds these days. We should be grateful for anyone even making reeds right now.

totally agreed... my teacher says he will teach me to make reeds sometime:D i just need to find the time

You can still find good hand-made reeds online. Reedreviews.net has reviews of some of these.

If your oboe teacher knows how to "alter" your store-bought reeds, then hopefully he/she actually knows how to make them as well. If this is the case, you would be much better off having hand-made reeds, as adjusting between store bought and hand made, or even store bought and hand-adjusted isn't the best thing for you to be getting used to.

yes he does make reeds.its just really time very time consuming to make reeds for all of his students. lately i have been buying handmade reeds though.