Joined: Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:23 pm Posts: 99 Location: Blue Mountains, NSW, AU.
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Iain, et al, Yes I had the same experience with ReedsAus.
They were in South Australia and growing for the orchestral market. The guy was kind of uninterested when I asked him about the suitability for dry bagpipe reeds. I found it much too hard - the parenchyma chipped more like a piece of wood. The bark was so hard you couldn't dent it with a fingernail. And the cane had to be scraped soooo thin to vibrate that it was like paper thickness.
My stuff is much softer than that. Again, lots of subjectivity in this, and cane is variable of course, hence the idea of sending samples to people and getting their opinion.
M
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