My Mission is to provide professional musicians with a guaranteed source of performance quality reeds.
My Goal is to have every reed meet the highest standards for sound quality and articulation, reeds that are fun to play and respond to your subtitle coaxing but able to project your personal sound with authority.
My Favorite Quotes
Sonny Rollins : “If I find the right reed it makes me want to play more and it affects what I play and my ability to play it.”
” Searching for the right reed is almost a mystical or magical experience for a reed player. Find the right one, and I know I have a chance to play really well.”
“I remember going to visit John Coltrane when he was playing at the Jazz Gallery many years ago. I went into his dressing room and he must have had fifty reeds that he checked and rejected. You have to be a reed player to understand how profoundly important it is to find the right reed.”
Quote Citation – Open Sky – Sonny Rollins and his world of Improvisation Copyright 2000 by : Eric Nisenson, Saint Martins Press, eISBN 9781250092625
Kalman Opperman: “Regarding Variances in commercial reeds; … But in spite of the best efforts on the part of the manufacturers to supply excellent reeds, latent flaws in cane are often concealed up to a point where only the player discovers them. This will be obvious to the clarinetist who with ordinary luck finds two usable reeds in a box of ten.
“If there aren’t good reeds in heaven, I’m not going.”
Quote 1 Citation – Handbook for Making and Adjusting Single Reeds by Kalmen Opperman Copyright 2002 by M. Barron Company Inc. Oyster Bay NY.
Quote 2 Citation – Kal Opperman Excerpted from ” Name for God” copyright 2015