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Forestone White Bamboo Synthetic Reed

$41.35 Regular Price
$28.95Sale Price
The new White Bamboo reeds are a fusion of the cut of the Black Bamboo and the material compounding of the Hinoki Reeds. When we developed our Black Bamboo Reeds we had the needs of professional classical players in mind.
 
It behaves like a good French cut cane reed with a big and strong heart for a good and sturdy resistance for perfect control.  We used our successful French filed cut, refined our material formula of the Hinoki for it and used some tuning methods to give you the most advanced reed we have made so far and can offer it for all four regular saxophone types and clarinet. Its sound is big with a lot of modern overtones but still has a very even spectrum. The attack has enough resistance for a good control and that you can push it but it is still easy enough for a comfortable playing and a wide flexibility.
 
This reed just sounds alive. It fits ideally to classical designed mouthpieces but also works really well with American faced mouthpieces. 
 
OPTIONAL:
The ReedGeek Black Diamond G4 utilizes unique, state of the art, 100% USA wear-resistant alloy. With our beautiful “Black Diamond” wear finish fostering a smooth “buttery” glide to the cut, the G4 excels on both natural cane and all synthetic reeds.
 
Exciting features include a newly designed length, a refined radius tip for precision work and a comfortable rounded back scraper for further pinpoint scraping options. With two new, elongated, contoured and curved rail bevels, specially designed to profile rails and re-contour the spine of both single and double reeds, the G4 is a must for every serious reed player!
 
Encased in our ReedGeek self-locking neoprene bag and case, instructions included.
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MATERIAL

The Forestone material is a mixture of polypropylene resin and cellulose wood fibre. More than 50 percent of the wood fiber used is bamboo. The material is brownish in colour, tasteless, odourless and non-toxic. The exceptional sound, resilience and flexibility of Forestone reeds is due mainly to this special material.

 

FABRICATION

Forestone reeds are made by proprietary injection molding developed in Japan.  This results in reeds with optimally smooth vamps that are exceptional uniform and consistent, reed to reed.

 

CONSTRUCTION & PROFILE

Forestone reeds are perfectly balanced side to side and front to back. The more or less standard profile tapers down to 0.1 mm thickness across the tip. Held up to the light, the reeds display the classic upside-down “U-shape” associated with cane reeds.

 

PERFORMANCE

Forestone reeds tend to maintain their strength / resistance over time. They vibrate well and hold the centre of the sound in a manner similar to that of a good quality cane reed. The basic timbre is robust, clear and strong, with just enough “buzz” to ensure projection and carrying power. Intonation is stable and the reeds articulate well throughout the range of the clarinet and saxophone.

 

FEEL

The difference in feel between Forestone and cane is minimal. That said, it is the wise player who takes some time to get comfortable with Forestone, in the same way as he or she would take time to get comfortable with a new mouthpiece, ligature, barrel or instrument.

 

ADJUSTMENT

Blowing resistance can be adjusted with Forestone reeds by slightly raising or lowering the reed on the mouthpiece table (slightly lower placement = slightly less resistance, slightly higher placement = slightly more resistance). Although other types of adjustment are usually not necessary, the material is sufficient hard that one can still do so using blades, files, sandpaper, reed rush or whatever other tool or implement is desired. One can also clip Forestone reeds successfully. 

 

LONGEVITY

The useful life of a Forestone reed will vary from player to player given that everyone’s way of playing — his or her embouchure address — stresses the reed differently. Forestone reeds will far outlast good quality cane as the proprietary composite material is impervious to water-logging and breakdown by saliva, and will not warp due to changes in humidity or altitude. After a certain number of hours, however, the reeds will begin to feel less lively and responsive. The loss in vitality, be it subtle or more pronounced, would signal the time has come to retire the reed in favor of a newer one.

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